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I was watching a show on sixty minutes a few months ago....there's this company, I forget where, who only hires retirees....
These men and women work because they don't want to die.
They got bored with retirement.
I think, if they can, they should work.....we've got Mom cleaning and gardening, which is a whole lot better than sitting around, letting her brain rot.
She's got arthritis, so the backyard has become her physical therapy....and she is weeding every day....I buy her plants; and, for the first time in a long time, there's more spring to her step.
She's only 65.
Her husband retired and died within two years and I believe it was from sheer boredom and nothing to do.
The ones that really hurt me are those whose children don't care. Then, I get angry. It's our loving obligation to care for our parents when they get old.
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Raven
~RETIRED~
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