Elderly Woman Dies in Georgetown House Fire

A house fire in the 3000 block of O Street NW claimed the life of an elderly woman on Friday evening, as the Post reports. Former Nathan's proprietor Carol Joynt has photos and a remembrance up on her web site, noting that few neighbors knew the woman's name even though she had lived on the block for so many years. "It struck us dumb that her home was in the middle of our block, we saw her occasionally, we knew she was elderly, virtually a shut in, seemingly eccentric, but we didn’t know her name, or of her family or anything about her that could help the investigators. It was the saddest component of a catastrophically sad day."

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get to know your neighbors, folks! there's no need to be best friends, but i've seen far too many people in DC fail to cultivate even the most basic relationships with the people they share walls with in this community. you never know when those relationships are going to work to your (and others) advantage!

I've enjoyed getting to know most of my neighbors, but there are still people out there even the old timers don't know because they don't want to be known.

I covet my neighbor's wife. Does that count?

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