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Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college
It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
My grandson whispers the morning dew sparkles like diamonds in the grass. Donal Mahoney
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
