Aunt Gert shrugged, pushing one hand firmly out in front of her as though stopping traffic. “Irene thanked me politely and then she declined. She said she’d lived the life she wanted with the people she loved most. She didn’t want a different life, even if it meant living longer. She said she was sorry to leave the world so soon, but she wouldn’t change her life, not one bit. She died the next morning.”
never offered her the LSD before the accident...apparently mom could raise kids and run a restaurant with no problem,
