From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 30 December 2003<P>

Hello to you all, just visiting.<BR>
          HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1189">darwin</a><BR>
Date: 30 December 2003<P>

violet~<BR>
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I really enjoyed reading noise.  I like the blunt honesty of it.  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1176">aparajita</a><BR>
Date: 30 December 2003<P>

bp: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.12.29.18.14.5197">Nursing Home</a> is so mournful.  as a nurse, daughter and grand-daughter i know the innards of nursing homes and have vowed to not go out that way if God will only allow and spare me.  i trust that you are ok and this piece is not reflecting pain. <BR>
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violet: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.12.28.05.00.10421">noise</a>, may i add to others that this work is wonderfully honest? i should have commented earlier since i cried with you when i read it. as must many others, i understand "noise" all too well.  take care and hoping you find peace in the New Year. by the way, i will pray for you.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 30 December 2003<P>

~aparajita~ thank you for your comment they're always welcome; i too know the "innards" of nursing homes having worked in a really old delapidated one as an orderly alittle over 30 yrs. ago, which is where i met my wife by the way. as a charge nurse she was my boss, we were married 4 months later, 30 years this jan. 26, 2004, and she still is my boss. we don't let a day pass without expressing our love for each other, it's not only hard on the elderly going to one, but it can be devastating to the families that can no longer care for them and commit them....again thank you<BR>
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bp
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=48">Laurel Ahlfeld</a><BR>
Date: 30 December 2003<P>

~*~Aparajita and Star of David~*~ You two are just wonderful! Thanks so much for your unending support. Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you...the holiday seasons are hectic but always a joy. Hope yours were full of love and hope.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1176">aparajita</a><BR>
Date: 30 December 2003<P>

bp & laurel: you're both welcome!  <BR>
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bp: you and your wife are both very lucky people to have found such love.  yes, it is more than devastating to families that have no choice in placing loved ones in the necessary evil of a nursing home.  especially when they hate you for it forever.  goes back to "life just ain't fair".  
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