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Saying Goodbye to Elizabeth

In the early morning of June 27, my oldest sister-in-law, Elizabeth Soyster Herrick, died of aggressive metastatic cancer.  She left the world gracefully, quietly, surrounded by her three sisters, but way, way too early.  Elizabeth was a month or so shy of 70, and four days earlier had driven from her home in Maryland with one of the sisters to a 70thbirthday party in Washington for all her Potomac School classmates. 

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