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Subject: Re: [MD.All'gny] RE: Words--Viewing/Wake
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:06:35 EST

In a message dated 2/11/02 10:39:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:


> and folks sat with the body at the house just in case the
person would "Wake".

One of my great-great aunts has told me about one of the
local families (around Chaneysville) who were sitting in a
wake for one of their family members. At one point, there
was only two in the room, a woman and a man, when the
"deceased" sat up and looked around! The woman fainted
dead out and the guy jumped out the window and took off,
never to come around again. The "deceased" had evidently
gone into a low-blood sugar coma. He lived for another 10-15
years!

I'll have to ask her who this was! :-)

Jerry

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