At 8:32 on the evening of 25 April 2013, Virginia Lucille Kulikowski took her last breath and died peacefully with her son holding her hand. With a kiss upon her forehead, he said "Goodbye, mama." which should be the last thing she heard. Then began the tears, the EMTs arriving to verify her passing, the police deputies of the county of Escambia, and finally the funeral home to take her away. The moon was full and the sky clear, even the heavens seemed to be holding its breath waiting for her. Virginia was 92 years old, having been born on 2 December 1920 in Saint Joseph, Missouri. She had been living with her son, Stan Kulikowski II, in their home in Pensacola, Florida, for the last seventeen years. She has two granddaughters, Jennifer and Heather, living somewhere on the west coast. Most of her family had preceded her passing: her husband, Stanley Frank Kulikowski had died in 1994, then her daughter, Kalyn Watkins, in 2008; and her son, Kory Zane Kulikowski, in 2012. It is often difficult for young children to give birthday gifts to their parents, having little money and less sense. Virginia solved this problem for her son and daughter: "The only thing I want is for you to promise me that when I get old, you will never put me in a nursing home. I want to die at my own home." Every year on her birthday, this ritual was repeated throughout the teenage years of her children. "Let me die at home." This was somewhat difficult when the horrid disease of Alzheimer's slowly stole her soul from her during her last six years, but she left this world like she wanted, sitting in her chair with the crazy quilt cover she had maintained for more than sixty years. Virginia never cared for funerals, so she enrolled herself in the anatomical gift program of the nearby medical school in Mobile, Alabama. She was a seamstress, having learned to sew as a girl from her aunt Dorthy, and the signature of her art were small heart shaped patches sewn into the corners of whatever project she was working on: "Love will always see you through."