Noreen was eighty-seven. She had always jokingly told her daughter that once she started to wet the bed, she should be put into geriatric care. Well, she wet the bed.
It was starting to become a regular occurrence.
“When are you coming to stay for a few days with us and the grandkids like you always used to?” asked Noreen’s daughter.
“I’m just getting a bit too old for it,” said Noreen. “And I find that grandchildren these days can get too boisterous.”
“Is everything okay?” asked Noreen’s daughter.
“Everything’s fine. Of course it is,” said Noreen.
Several months later Noreen died; in fact a week after her eighty-eighth birthday. Noreen’s children descended upon her house to clean it up. Noreen’s secret was out.
wotcha Bruce! Long time no read. But you’re still going strong!
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Great balls of fire Elaine! Plodding on! Are you still doing the Mills and Boon style things?
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I’ve been trying new things, but I think I’m coming back to romantic fiction. Glad to see you, I thought you’d gone. x
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I went away for several months – just for a break.
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Nothing stays secret forever.
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Unfortunately!!
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A sad tale of human vulnerabilities. How lonely and sad can one get?
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We get there a lot faster than we think we will!!
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They say there is no such thing as time, or Time. It’s all in the human mind. Nothing then is fast or slow.
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I’ll need time to think about that!
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That one is an ace!
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Well, at least they didn’t find the bodies buried in her basement.
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OMG! You’re learning!!!
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She was canny that Noreen, at least she escaped the dreaded geriatric care….
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Appropriately called “dreaded”…
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I was interested to say a case in America recently where a woman shot and killed her son after he’d put her in a care home. She said he’d taken her life, so she’d taken his.
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I hope you’re not putting ideas into peoples’ heads – but it’s definitely an idea! I would be fearful of ending up in a bad (cruel) home.
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