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Margaret Deutsch died today...

My grandmother died over night. She was an amazing woman. I know everyone says that about everyone but she really was amazing. She was the one that took care of everyone, her husband, her family, her sister, then her grandchildren. She taught me how to do many things: shoot a bow and arrow, swim, make whipped cream without making butter, how to really make a bed, how to dive, how to shower with NO hot water, that bananas make most cereal better... My grandmother believed in getting the most out of everything. My grandfather got a new Cadilac sedan de Ville every 2 years. My grandmother had 3 cars the whole time I've been alive an early 70s Chevy Nova, an eighties Dodge K car, and my parents convinced her to buy a 90s Saturn sedan. She kept everything. When I was kid before my grandfather moved her to Florida, she had a room that was at one point one of her children's bedroom that was called the junk room. In it she had everything. She would go to garage sales and buy stuff and put it in there for people and she would go into the room when ever anyone was over to visit to find things to give them. She also read everything. She read more periodicals regularly than anyone else I know. She would cut out articles for everyone she knew if the article might at all interest them. I don't know if there was ever a moment in her day where she wasn't thinking about how to make what ever she was doing benefit someone in her life. Scratch that, every morning that she had a pool to swim in she would take a bar of ivory soap to the pool and swim and bath. That was her morning "bath" and I think that was probably the closest thing to selfish she ever did. Now I do have to say that my perspective is skewed, I was her first grandson and her oldest biological... (I have an older step cousin who came into the picture after I was born.) However, my mom called her saint Margaret, and I never felt that she meant it ironically. I'm going to miss her, and I'm very sad that she won't ever get to see any of her great grandchildren. I think she would have loved to be a great grandmother.