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My heart breaks for George H.W. Bush. Our parents die before us, that’s just life, that’s how it is. But to lose my wife? I don’t know what I would do. If I’m lucky, I’ll die before my wife (likely, given our age difference).
And the people of that generation, who lived through the Depression, and the war (and George H.W. Bush had a brave and honorable record in that war)? They lived lives I’ll never know (thank God);
She lived to a good old age, but still, the world will miss her.