Remembering parent's life

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We also found out that the evening before she died, she was socializing happily with her nursing home friends. A bunch of her women friends and her sang 'Edelweiss", a song from the 'Sound of Music'. I know it's Hollywood...but you have to remember his mother married his birth father in 1939, the year when WW II started. He was unwillingly conscripted to fight....and eventually was shot in Czechslovakia. Before going into war, he was part of a university-based Catholic anti-Nazi group. We did not know this until 2 years ago, my dearie received an overseas phone call from a theology PhD German student (actually she was also a nun) doing research in this area of history.

My dearie remembers the day his mother was informed of his death by the authorities.

She died peacefully in her sleep and actually the nurses didn't quite believe that she died because she was active a few hrs. before. She did have slight dementia.

If we could wish death was like this for us when the time comes..and if no other choice, in a well-managed, caring nursing home. Several nursing staff recounted stories to my dearie, and time that they spent with her and about her little habits.

As for real gourmet baking...did you know that the real, quality classic linzertorte...a pie-like torte with raspberry filling...is actually aged for 30 days to deepen the hazelnut crust flavour and so on? That is proper, classic German gourmet linzertorte..it takes time to get quality. And kept in tin cake container with a lemon peel for moisture/freshness inside. This was her linzertorte.

It's true...since knowing his mother's baking, it's hard not to become a dessert snob.