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The grandchild of a man recently dead from cancer waited for most everyone to leave before placing a rose on the descending casket.
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Dr. Paul Scott, 80, has birthed half the people living in the town, but has also witnessed the deaths of people that he has known since he was a child. Keeping his tears under control, he tends to the final hours of a cancer-ridden friend he has…
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At the Good Samaritan nursing home there are fine meals, weekly music recitals and an aviary of little birds for the patients to look at. But this doesn't change the basic purpose of the place, which is to house, to warehouse, the residents say,…
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A woman who lost her husband was attempting her first days alone in elderly housing, but she became afraid and Dr. Paul Scott, 80, the town's oldest physician, had to have her moved into a nursing home.
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Floyd Pullman, once the mayor of the town, recently and tearfully placed his wife in the good Samaritan Nursing Home. Suffering Alzheimer's disease, Jenny only occasionally, then tearfully, recognizes him as her husband.
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Emma Ruble is 104 years old now. The oldest resident of Auburn, a wholly lucid, albeit blind resident of the town's nursing home, was reported to be wild in her younger years. Emma is treated with deference by the nursing staff and disdained by the…
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because Inez has been near death so often, she and her husband have made every arrangement for her burial. They regularly visit the cemetery where their stone is amidst the graves of their relative.
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Rex keeps a constant eye on his exceedingly frail but strong-willed wife. Forty-eight years ago, having a massive heart condition, Inez had to choose between living and in all likelihood dying if she delivered her son. Inez, against her family's…
