branmuffin
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People make note of various things and judge them. Tis the way of the world.
My experiences have been what they are, which is humans can react in ways that don't align with my own or someone else's expectations and it just might not mean what I think it means.
IMO
When my deceased MIL found out her cancer had returned after being cancer free for almost 20 years she became reclusive. She had always been a very vibrant beautiful woman and this time it ravaged her; spread from her lungs to her spine to her brain.
She never came to our daughter's wedding and neither did her husband. She didn't want anyone to see her the way she was. I never laid eyes on her and neither did her grandchildren from the time she was diagnosed till the time she died 8 months later. Nobody gave a damn about what she looked like but it was important to her for us to remember her in good times. We respected her decision but ultimately everyone felt cheated by her absence.