You've known her as a neighbour for decades
a down-the-street neighbour married to a much
older man who left his wife and two children for her.
And as he aged and became infirm foreign travel
beckoned time and again, he to remain in situ she
to explore the world as a tourist for whom nothing
and nowhere should be unfamiliar. When he could
no longer care for himself following surgeries to
sustain life, time came to move into an end-of-life
hospice where dementia moved in with him and
she who demurred at any personal sacrifice of time
and energy blithely informed the street he had died
while she was on a trip to Greece. This latest trip
was to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT and on her return
up close and personal to show you photos she suddenly
yelped !oh! and moved well back. The memento
of that trip was a COVID infection and while she is
duly medicated it slipped her mind she is also infectious.
She always said she intended to age as gracefully
as you and now near 90 you may not, after all.
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