On 6/30/2009 1:33 PM, Anne wrote:

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Me speaking, as a test of the forum's psychic abilities:

> P.S. - Anyone want to guess how Great Aunt Mildred died?

Several people tried their psychic abilities. Lloyd made a laundry list
of common causes of death, but I chose Aunt Mildred because her cause of
death was so UNcommon, so he missed.

Joe Needham guessed she was gored by a pissed off rhino. He's
completely wrong, it was a friendly rhino playing an overenthusiastic
game of tag. (no, not really).

James Taylor said something like "critical cell failure," which I think
is too generic and may have been an attempt to use a blanket category
that catches everything.

Michael Swaim is the only true psychic in the group, who used his
psychic powers to find my page on Mildred

http://www.wfu.edu/~ecarlson/mildred/index.html

which led him to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Harnack

Anne wrote:

> I'll bite. I see Aunt Mildred as a rather tall slender woman
> with dark short curly hair.

I can't get definitive information on her height (I never met her), but
pictures definitely make her look slender, and she doesn't look short
standing next to her husband, who was described as tall. Her hair
sometimes looks dark and sometimes light in the black and white photos I
checked, but I have a definite description of her as "blond" and later
as "fair" like her blond husband. Her hair length seems to have varied
over the years, though it was often long, sometimes very long. It was
rather short at the time of her death, however. It looks pretty
straight or slightly wavy, so I think we count that as a miss.

> She died from a sharp instrument
> that was somehow inserted into her.

Not exactly, though closer than some of the other guesses.

> Am I certified? No,
> not certifiable, just certified? lol

I've decided not to go into the psychic certification business.

My great aunt died from decapitation.

Eric Carlson