Mary Catherine Dugan

Dear John and Paul (and of course all your spouses and children and nieces and nephews and in-laws), I am so terribly sorry for the passing of your dear sister. Of course, I didn't know her well, but her warmth and love for you all, her fierce caring for critters, her enormous, luminous pride in all her remarkable younger brothers--and their fabulous children--was so touchingly obvious. When someone who has beaten the odds so many times finally succumbs--it somehow makes the loss feel even...