Write, and visit. For both of you. It's a healing thing for everyone.
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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Thanks, Mal. Her "caregiver", if you want to call him that, is her son who has left her in a home with nothing more than a sofa to sleep on and a cardtable. She spent most of the years I knew her getting him through college. Some payback, yes?
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I can't articulate the stuff bubbling up from reading that.
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Jan and I shared many laughs; it is what kept us sane during insane times. That we might want to share a laugh again hadn't occurred to me.
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Visit. Hold hands. Let conversation & fun and the serious stuff go where it wants. She may not want to ask, or even want to want to ask, but her people are almost certainly the biggest thing to her right now.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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