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Showing posts with label terminal caring. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2013

Life's Little Ironies*

Today, not for the first time, someone said to me:

I do admire you for what you are doing,
the more as you are but her son-in-law.



The 'but' let me smile.

She did probably take it for humility.


*With thanks to Thomas Hardy