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Wow ? I choked up reading the story. (The Praying Mantis Story of Tevis) There is so much in this world that we do not know or cannot even conceive.I have a similar story when my mother passed away about 7 years ago. My parents had been out visiting friends. My mother went downstairs to get a nosh. As she started climbing the stairs a massive pulmonary embolism hit her. She tumbled down the stairs and was probably gone within a minute. My father found her at 6 in the morning. He called me and my sister and we rushed up to the house. We were there much of the day and returned later that evening as family and friends gathered.We took our dog with us. We sat in the living room. From the far end of the sofa you could see where her body had lain. The dog stood on the arm of the sofa and for at least three hours sat with her eyes glued to the spot. Nothing would move her.She passed way on December 6. She was 82 and had lost most of her sight by then from a condition known as macular degeneration. We found out later from her doctor that she had stopped taking her medication and told him that she would be gone before the end of the year. She smoked from the age of 15 to the day she passed away 67 years later proving that smoking cigarettes is not good for your health.