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BS comes and BS goes, but Good Humor is Eternal
Whew, it's been a tough six months!  It kind of started on Thanksgiving when our makeshift, abrevriated turkey dinner (where I had the bright idea of trying out the roaster for the first time on T-Day... not good), was interrupted by a call from across the Country:  Mom's in the hospital - they don't think she's gonna make it this time.   And they were right   Grabbing a last minute fare, I was on the West Coast 14 hours later, joining in the family death watch - a ritual, if you haven't experienced it, that consists of family members who tend to bicker, hugging each other awkwardly, while reminiscing uncomfortably about times which were equally awkward and uncomfortable for us all in the first place    
Fast forward six months later, my mother passed away - my father took ill a week later, and spent 2 months in a hospital undergoing hundreds of thousands of dollars of billable Medicare procedures to discover precisely nothing, then, after returning home, and being moved to a new senior independent living apartment community, because he couldn't face the emptiness of the home they'd shared,  gave up the ghost himself to join his bride of ... more

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