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To: Edwarda who wrote (66210)	12/12/1999 2:14:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I had a relative that died recently in a small town in Texas. She was sort of related to me indirectly and has been senile for a number of years... a really kooky kind of senility not completely incapacitated or anything... we didn't actually know how old she was when she died but around 100 most likely. In her house we found cases and cases of scavenged junk - it was amazing. Boxes of plasic bags she saved every time she went to the grocery store, tin foil she had used and washed and saved... anything that was ever broken and replaced she saved... But the wierdest part is her history. Almost my entire adult life she has been senile so no one really knows that much about her. But the story was that she was a Ziegfeld Folly (a tap dancer) around 1915 when she was 15 years old. I don't know how long she stayed in NYC but by 1929 she was back in Texas in a small town, and had to live through the depression in a sort of dust bowl ... can you imagine that? We didn't ever know if it was true. Then we found a box with a picture in it which we think is her in front of the New Amsterdam theatre which is where the Ziegfield Follies were... just one picture of her and 2 other women (we don't know who they were)... so at that moment we realized maybe she wasn't completely halluncinating after all. In the same box we found a magazine from 1916 with an article about the titanic survivors.

To: Edwarda who wrote (66210)	12/12/1999 2:19:00 PM
From: Alexander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The greatest tragedy of all is that most of us will arrive at this same place in time..Then what??? How will we feel about having our lives tampered with..A little understanding goes as long way, and Life in general is not about $$$$$ It is about how much respect we have for our elders and our youngsters' When we are in the "Drivers seat life gets very complex, Just remember that our Parents were there a few short years before us...."Do unto others etc". I personally cannot wait to create a "House from Hell" ;-))))) ( I am a "Paper Packrat". lol Drive my children at least as "crazy" as they have me, then become a "Bag Lady" and carry a great big Red Purse with all of my uncashed SS checks in it..Have my own Pink Shopping Cart and behave just like Erma Bombeck would :-)))))))))))))))

To: Edwarda who wrote (66210)	12/13/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: MSB	Respond to of 108807

I tried to catch up yesterday where I had left off, but that was 300 posts ago. I can see at this point I'm simply not going to able to in case you're wondering why now after more than 300+ posts later. I remember some of the "house from hell" posts you made. I don't really know what kind of things my parents encountered when it came to the chore of putting things back into some kind of order with regard to my grandparents. I do remember for a couple of months they made the 300 mile one way trip about every weekend. My parents moved my dad's parents into some type of assisted living apartment environment where they had something resembling a sitting room, a bathroom (probably equipped with all the attachments needed for people of an elderly age), and a bedroom. Their meals were prepared for them, they had access to go places through some type of transportation service, but most importantly, they were checked up on daily without (hopefully since I really can't be sure) the obtrusive nature associated the ever dreaded "rest home". I believe under the circumstances (my grandfather had ahlzhiemer's disease and my grandmother was in no shape to take care of my grandfather's state), my parents did the very best that they could. I'm sure it was not a choice they enjoyed making. My grandmother passed away about six months after the move, and my grandfather followed about a year later.