My daughter-in-law laughed as she gave me a $2 scratch-off for my 73rd birthday. Ten months later, my own son shoved a senior living brochure in front of me and said, “We already picked your room.” They thought I was too old to fight back. They had no idea what I had been hiding.
Choosing to live somewhere should never be taken away from a person simply because she is old.
He called that night.
“I get it,” he said.
“I didn’t at first.”
“What changed?”
“I talked to a counselor.
I thought about Dad.
If someone had handed him a brochure and said he’d already been assigned a room, he would have been furious.”
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