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The woman in the coffin wears a dark corduroy housedress and a black cardigan. Her face, 72 years old, is delicate and composed. Her thin black hair, barely peppered with gray, lies straight and limp on the white satin pillow.
It's clean, but there's not much life to it.
Lucille Tinker is ready to fix that, and looking for clues.
The woman's name is Yugoslavian. ``She looks like she just got off the boat,'' Lucille says, opening her squat pink cosmetic case. ``I doubt she ever did her hair. I bet she only washed it and combed it. So I'll just put it back with a few nice waves in it.''
I'm spending an afternoon with Lucille because she made my grandma look good when she died a few weeks ago. Lucille did her hair ...