Came to see me, after many years. I’d heard she’d gone through wars with body – a bleed on the brain. It hadn’t diminished her recollection of our past (I’d forgotten she knew and had stayed with Alou in Edinburgh) or her character.
I am angry, she said, with the limits of my body. Balance, breathlessness, tiredness, all challenge.
We went though our pack of cards. The people, the homes and places. It was because of you I have a spares room with square boxes for my jumpers and shirts, I said. Miles, Patrick, Maggie, Bridget.
After lunch we walked through the wood, deliciously cool. She is leaving living with Michelle after 14 years, longer than any relationship ! And moving to a MacArthur and aStone sheltered home. she will have autonomy and space.
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