Article November 21, 1988 Issue

Taking care of our parents

A woman touches the cheek of her hospitalized mother with utmost tenderness. "I won't leave," she says, then sits for hours, quietly talking and listening, as she has for several days.

A man listens for hours as his father-in-law tells of his past, stories that over the years had become better, funnier.

A daughter shows her widowed father the steps involved in doing his own laundry.

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