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Then there’s the aging pet
My granddog is visiting this week. Pippen came into our lives in the second year of my son’s illness, riding home from North Carolina as a tiny pup lying on John’s thigh. She was his constant companion until his death nine years later. Since then she’s lived primarily with my daughter and her family, along…
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Never again just Valentine’s Day
It was 2012 that I learned February 14 is National Donor Day. I learned this from my son John when he wrote a post (that became an op-ed in our local paper) while sitting in a dialysis chair. He was 28 at that time. Just the day before I had been approved to give him…
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Introduction
Thirty years ago I wrote a book titled Your Aging Parents. Then a decade ago a friend with whom I am no longer in contact said, “You should write another book about us: Our Aging Selves. So Bonnie, thanks for the suggestion!
Our Aging Selves 