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EVERYWHERE by Peter Nolan Smith

June 20, 2021 – 8:50 am

My older brother and I went everywhere with our parents. We drove from Hingham to Maine, Watchic Pond to Boston, Falmouth Foresides to the South Shore. There were thousands of trips with my mother and father. Nowadays Frunk and I live far apart. We haven’t been in a car together for over ten years, but […]

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So Much Older Then

June 18, 2018 – 8:33 am

“Why do men die before women?” “Because they want to.” It’s an old joke but very truthful, for yesterday afternoon I visited my father in an Alzheimer’s hospice. My father was the only male in the renovated mansion. The rest of the residents are women. No one has any idea where the hell they are. […]

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