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The people of the internet are pre-emptively inviting one woman to their wakes after watching a video of her showing off her 'party trick' after a family funeral.
Talia Richman shared the clip of her mum Linda busting a move at her grandfather's wake to TikTok, and now viewers can't get enough of her.
Watch the clip here:
Sharing her mum's impressive high-kick to splits routine, Talia wrote: "The most lit wake of all time. The last time she did the splits was at her mum’s funeral, she said she pulled her hamstring bc she wasn't warmed up enough.. pleased to report – hammy in tact at this funeral."
TikTok users were blown away by Linda's impressive move, raving that she was giving exactly the kind of energy they would want at their own wake.
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"It’s called a celebration of life," commented one user.
"This is how I want my family to be at my funeral lol," added a second.
"I wanna be her when i grow up fr," penned a third.
A fourth suggested: "This is how we sometimes should celebrate peeps moving onto the next life."
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Others were eager to get Talia's mum to come to their own wakes to lighten the mood.
"This is the energy I want at my wake," wrote on TikToker. "She can come to my wake," wrote another.
After her video went viral, and viewers begged for more details about her mum, Talia made a follow-up TikTok to explain.
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"My dear mother has been doing the splits as long as I can remember as a party trick. She did ballet and dance for 23 years, she was an aerobics instructor."
She continued: "Growing up, I remember if we'd have a dinner party, she would bust out into the splits. And it was always that same routine. High-kick, turn splits. She refuses to just do the splits, it has to be the whole routine.
"In recent years, obviously she's getting older, she doesn't do it as often, obviously. But on special occasions we like to kind of peer pressure her into doing it. The last time she said she did it would have been 2017 or so, after her mother's funeral."
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"I was trying to peer pressure her to do it again at my granddad's funeral. It was my dad's dad. She didn't want to but I peer pressured her so she did it. Hamstring still in-tact this time."
Responding to the few sceptics, Talia added that her mum's upbeat dance moves are exactly what her granddad would have wanted.
"He was 92, he lived an amazing life. He was always the life of the party, himself. He loved a good whiskey. So this is exactly what he would want. Everyone at this wake was lit. I was incredibly lit... It was fun, and it was a celebration of life, which is what we wanted."
Ali Condon