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“Later in life, children are often reluctant for a host of reasons to assume responsibility over their parents, a reversal of roles that symbolizes mortality.”

Book:Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

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“They wheeled my father up. "Hi Dad," I touched his hand, which was locked down under a thick restraining belt. His sweat pants were stained with food; the socks on his feet were twisted and wrong. "We'll meet you inside," I yelled. My father craned his neck and answered: "Two. Four. Seventeen." The New York Times Magazine, LIVES”

Dementia Caregiving Aging Parents Psychiatric Hospital

Author:Lisa K Friedman

“Beloved, it is when one transitions from the realm of passive observation to the active pursuit of divine connection that the forces of opposition are stirred, for in the very act of praising and worshiping the Almighty, the gates of chaos are flung open, unleashing the tempestuous winds of resistance.”

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Author:Bishop W.F. Houston Jr.

“It hurts watching my dad smile at air, while aging in despair.”

Aging Parents

Author:Grace Poeta

“When she was young, she thought he was old, and now that he was old, Alice realized how young he’d been. Perspective was unfair.”

Aging Parents

Book:This Time Tomorrow

Source: This Time Tomorrow

“Tired of how it felt to know that her life was going to change and that she was going to have this enormous hole forever. Soon.”

Death Aging Parents

Book:This Time Tomorrow

Source: This Time Tomorrow

“It’s also good to look for the silver linings when it comes to our families too. For a long time, this thought of being a grown-up kid who hasn’t left her nuclear family made me feel kind of embarrassed and like I was doing things wrong. But over the last few years, I’ve realized how lucky I am. The time we get with our parents is finite and, thanks to my long-term singleness, I have got to spend a lot more time with them than I may otherwise have done.”

Single Life Aging Parents

Book:Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

Source: Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“But for the most part we wouldn’t have otherwise got to spend that extended time with them in our thirties. For me, it really was a blessing in disguise.”

Single Life Aging Parents

Book:Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

Source: Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't dump no white folks in de hole jus' so." "Whut tuh do 'bout de colored folks? Got boxes fuh dem too? “Nope. They cain't find enough of 'em tuh go 'round. Jus' sprinkle plenty quick-lime over 'em and cover 'em up." "Shucks! Nobody can't tell nothin' 'bout some uh dese bodies, de shape dey's in. Can't tell whether dey's white or black." The guards had a long conference over that. After a while they came back and told the men, "Look at they hair, when you cain't tell no other way. And don't lemme ketch none uh y'all dumpin' white folks, and don't be wastin' no boxes on colored. They's too hard tuh git holt of right now." "They's mighty particular how dese dead folks goes tuh judgment," Tea Cake observed to the man working next to him. "Look lak dey think God don't know nothin' 'bout de Jim Crow law.”

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Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“If I had my druthers, I would be buried in a library or inside a coffin that resembled one--that's how I feel about them.”

Death Coffins Libraries Burials

Author:Junot Díaz

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