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Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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Mary Ann Shaffer
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: December 13
Died: 2008
Died: February 16
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
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