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Growing Old

I finished a really great book today – The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton. Like the best of fiction, the story has left me pensive. Happy, too. But a happiness tinged by bitterness; joy inseparable from the sorrows of life. In the novel, a woman lives through her elderly mother’s hospice care and eventual death. She reminisces a time in the 1950’s when she observed her mother and father dancing together in their living room after all the children had been tucked...