another excerpt from:
The Sad Saga of Elder Abuse:
Prevalence Far Greater Than Perception
Prevalence Far Greater Than Perception
by Albert Samaha
examiner.com
examiner.com
Years pass as in Allende novels, raking stories through time like Oak leaves in November, collecting the significant and the arbitrary trivial. Serendipity finally crescendoed in 2001. By this time both were widowed and living alone. Walsh felt ill one day and called Vallangca to take him to the hospital. Days later he lay in the operating room, for abdominal surgery. As he recovered, Vallangca stayed with him and took care of him. They grew closer and closer, Vallangca’s vibrant heart seemingly strengthening Walsh’s by osmosis. A romance blossomed. That rare love discovered in the twilight of life.
