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| Partnering with things | p. 35 |
| Life partners | p. 45 |
| Partnering with community : giving up the car keys | p. 52 |
| "When we must bear persistent pain" | p. 58 |
| Change of life : a flash of insight | p. 61 |
| Celebrating change : croning | p. 67 |
| Changing roles : becoming orphaned | p. 73 |
| Changing self : growing stranger | p. 77 |
| "When earth in changed" | p. 83 |
| The woman who wouldn't grow old | p. 88 |
| To dye or not to dye | p. 95 |
| More blessed to receive | p. 101 |
| Radical choice : losing a part of one's body | p. 106 |
| The willing to things | p. 114 |
| Creating community : rituals of recognition | p. 121 |
| "Let me go home" | p. 134 |
| A serendipitous dance of death | p. 137 |
| A country way of dying | p. 145 |
| Now I lay me down to sleep | p. 153 |
| "Daybreak" | p. 165 |
| Facing finitude : between "now" and the "hour of our death" | p. 166 |
| Postlude | p. 177 |
| Sources for women, ritual, and aging | p. 179 |
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