Thanks for posting this. I remember reading it a few years ago and it brought a tear then too.
We have elderly neighbors who have lived on an acreage 3/4 mile from us for 35 years, who had to move in with their daughter 90 miles away a few weeks ago. He is waiting for a place in a veterans home and she is looking for an apartment. They have no family anywhere close to here and few friends. They are very nice, jolly friendly people but throughout their lives, they've always came straight home from work to tend the garden etc. and they never socialized to make friends.
They asked me to watch their house this winter so I'm making an effort to drive in and out their lane whenever I drive by, sweeping the snow away from the sidewalk, and I'm even driving up to the mailbox just to make tracks in the snow. There is a certain emptiness I feel everytime I drive in their lane. They have been very self-sufficient people over the years but now they're at the point where they can't do it anymore. Sometimes I think back about the opportunities I had to help an older person but passed it up. You can't help them anymore when you visit them for the last time at the funeral home and you can't turn back time. Jim
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