True story. At the trust meeting, my daughter said: “She has no say.” I reached into my bag and…

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What she did not know, because she had never asked and I had never offered, was that Gerald had called me from the memory care facility 2 weeks before he died.

He had a clear afternoon, which happened less often by then, but still happened.

He asked the aide to call me on his behalf, and when I answered, he said very deliberately, “Ruth, the folder continue reading …