While I’ve been visiting my mom we’ve been going through photo albums. She doesn’t know what day it is, can’t remember the number of the assisted-living unit she’s moving into, can’t keep track of the fact that from now on she’ll have her meals in the dining room, rather than snacking on M&Ms and Trader Joe’s biscotti all day long, unwilling or unable t…
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