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View submission: A weird call about my dead mom
If they are going to great effort to make a simply nice gesture like this asking nothing in return, what have you got to lose if you say yes? Believe it or not, there are nice and genuine people out there who simply want to honor someone whether they knew them or not. Perhaps outside of your knowledge your mother encountered or knew someone close to the politician in her life and never made you aware. Maybe they don’t know her and just want to do something nice. Either way, saying yes doesn’t effect or hurt anyone, it’s a kind gesture
Comment by megret at 31/01/2025 at 13:20 UTC
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I appreciate this insight, and if the connection were more clear I'd accept it at face value. But the fact that it's in a different state, a politician with a party my mother had never registered for, whose career started after she left the state, and 10 months after her death is very suspicious.
And, if my mother knew someone who knew someone in power she'd make sure we knew. She saw Dick Cheney's motorcade once when she lived in DC and we heard about that for a year.