Good Morning, Alice (7)

It is always difficult to acknowledge one's own mortality. With Alice it was no different. There were the things she insisted on having done -- which seemed to us to be so very trivial, especially in light of the fact that she could not live long anymore. When the many cards and letters came, Alice insisted (almost to the very end) on saving every canceled stamp. It did not matter that the stamp was of the most common sort -- it had to be torn off and saved. Since she could not do it anymore,...