Here's a great idea, kids! Let's take Grandma's ashes to her final resting place in Wichita, then pop over to Tennessee and see your sister's new house, and then us gals'll pile into the car and head on down to Savannah! Whaddya say? It was a whirlwind, but it was, all-in-all, really kind of fun. Except. Well, except for the showdown at DFW over "consolidating" our carry-on items. One, the Grandma herself, was actually about as consolidated as any of us could ever hope to be; seein' as how she was in a box carried in a vintage PanAm bag. (The vehicle of choice, in this family, for transporting a relative to their final destination. In the physical world, anyway.) No other airport gave us this kind of hassle, and that includes San Diego, Wichita, and
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