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On this day, June 24, 2021, under a cloudless still sky and a rising full moon, Linda gently breathed her last and was gathered to her people and to the presence of God whom she steadfastly loved and was fascinated by.   She was surrounded by her children and myself.  We were in her room all day, laughing and crying, searching in vain through hundreds of pictures for one of just her, not gathered with family, friends and most especially, her gorgeous grandchildren.    We couldn’t find a single one.   She never posed, not for a photograph and not in life.   So I picked just one with Josh, and no one will feel left out.   She was beautiful, charming and brilliant, a summa cum laude in her double majors of mathematics and early childhood development, but all she wanted was to teach children to read, have her own school and a family to pass on all that was good.  So she did.     She beat her diagnosis by a long shot, but heaven mus...