Wow. I'm glad I don't live in that neighborhood. I'm surprised nobody noticed when the electric was turned off, as it must have been, and there were no lights in the house. Very sad.
Living in the country we tend to notice if something is out of place in the neighborhood, even if we aren't friendly with the neighbors.
I know that when the mailbox isn't by the road in the fall that my neighbor has headed for Florida and when the mailbox is up in the spring, she's home. There's quite a few seniors in our area and you notice if the lights aren't turned on, or the cars are gone or haven't moved in days.
We also tend to keep a watch for strangers or new vechicles on the road. It's a different mindset from city living I guess.
Very true, Sandra. I grew up in the country and when something was wrong all the neighbors came out and bonded together. And these were folks that didn't talk to each other for years at a time.
I find the headline word "mummified" at odds with the words badly decomposed" in the article. Usually mummified is used to indicate some level of preservation.
As for the no one noticing, when a person is a voluntary hermit and shuts the world out, people tend not to notice as much.
Diane, I checked her old pics and she was a very beautiful woman. Also appears she was a nice and gracious woman at conventions that she still visited into the late 1990s.
Richard, I pieced together two different articles on her passing and you are right in your criticism of the word mummified.
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Wow. I'm glad I don't live in that neighborhood. I'm surprised nobody noticed when the electric was turned off, as it must have been, and there were no lights in the house. Very sad.
In America we have such a disconnect with our neighbors. I'm betting this happens quite a bit.
Living in the country we tend to notice if something is out of place in the neighborhood, even if we aren't friendly with the neighbors.
I know that when the mailbox isn't by the road in the fall that my neighbor has headed for Florida and when the mailbox is up in the spring, she's home. There's quite a few seniors in our area and you notice if the lights aren't turned on, or the cars are gone or haven't moved in days.
We also tend to keep a watch for strangers or new vechicles on the road. It's a different mindset from city living I guess.
Very true, Sandra. I grew up in the country and when something was wrong all the neighbors came out and bonded together. And these were folks that didn't talk to each other for years at a time.
So strange. Worthy of fiction for sure. I feel very bad for her, to be so isolated that no one noticed her gone.
Yeah I was thinking that elements make for a short horror tale.
I just remembered Ms. Vickers played Paul Newman's married girlfriend in HUD. A small but memorable role.
What a lovely woman she was and such an unfortunate ending.
I find the headline word "mummified" at odds with the words badly decomposed" in the article. Usually mummified is used to indicate some level of preservation.
As for the no one noticing, when a person is a voluntary hermit and shuts the world out, people tend not to notice as much.
Diane, I checked her old pics and she was a very beautiful woman. Also appears she was a nice and gracious woman at conventions that she still visited into the late 1990s.
Richard, I pieced together two different articles on her passing and you are right in your criticism of the word mummified.
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