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From: MaryW
Date: 03-14-2006, 08:41 AM (1 of 3)
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Very cool story with people from all walks of life. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060314/FEATURES08/603140387/1033 MaryW
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User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: beachgirl
Date: 03-14-2006, 09:01 AM (2 of 3)
| That's a great story Mary & so true. Even a young person has to have friends & to look forward to doing things they enjoy. We all need reasons to get out of bed each day & the mind needs to stay active.Being alone or lonely is asking for bad health & an early decline. I wish more nursing homes & such had more things for the people to do instead of just sitting around.I know that some could teach us a lot of stuff we'd love to learn also. |
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Member since: 08-31-2004 Total posts: 615 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-14-2006, 09:19 AM (3 of 3)
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After my father-in-law died my mother-in-law became a totally different person. She was always the stronger one in that (or any) relationship but suddenly she became very dependent. I really think it was because she had nothing to do. Her whole life she never did any kind of sewing or craft or even read. The closest she came to a hobby was shopping. And she was good at that. She really looked down on "homemade" items. I know it was because she grew up poor but it left her with nothing when she no longer had her favorite pastime -- complaining to and about her husband. I know that if she had some kind of creative pastime her last couple years would have been happier and easier and perhaps she would have lived longer. Dorothy |
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Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
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