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Dejay Cartwright had visited more than 400 lighthouses, and she was setting out to see another. She was an aficionado, so drawn to the charm of these quaint relics that she’d joined the Lighthouse Preservation Society. The home she shared with her adult daughter, Tiffany Cartwright, in Townsend, Del., was teeming with miniature replicas.
She’d invited Tiffany to join her that summer evening in 2015. The trail was longer than anticipated, though, and Cartwright’s walker kept catching in the path. After about a half-hour, she was too tired to continue, and they headed home.