Trump ignoring his role as Consoler In Chief is reminiscent

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8. Ten years ago, on Thanksgiving evening, my 97 year old aunt died.

She was my mother's older sister, and the closet thing I ever had to a grandmother. She had fallen just before Halloween and broken her hip. Surgery was successful, and she could have returned home following physical therapy, but chose a different path. In hospice for three weeks, she stopped eating after a week, and stopped drinking after two. After a few more days she lapsed into a coma, and died at about 6 PM on Thanksgiving.

My brother-in-law couldn't understand why his wife -- my sister -- was upset. "She was an old lady. What's the big deal?"

Three weeks later, he took a van to her retirement home, went to her apartment, and loaded up everything he could get his hands on, including a Waterford nativity scene. The box it was in had the address of my sister-in-law in Arizona who had loaned it to my aunt when she moved back to Iowa full time. That was 9 days before Christmas. His excuse? "They were throwing it out." He hasn't been allowed in my home since.