another excerpt from:
The Sad Saga of Elder Abuse:
Prevalence Far Greater Than Perception
Prevalence Far Greater Than Perception
by Albert Samaha
examiner.com
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Then in 1987 her son asked her to help him plan his wedding. He wanted to hold his reception at Fort Mason, a former military base in San Francisco; however only military personnel are authorized to sponsor use of the facilities. Vallangca, at this point, had maintained only a single, thread-thin connection to the military. Decades before, when they parted ways, Walsh had given her the phone number of his mother-in-law, who had a steady landline, in case Vallangca ever needed to reach him. The contact, by now covered in forty years worth of dust and cobwebs, was a long-shot. “Surely,” Vallangca thought, “the number had been disconnected or changed by now.” But she made the call and Walsh’s mother-in-law picked up-- not even ration overwhelms serendipity. To Vallangca’s surprise, Walsh had been living in San Francisco, just a few blocks away. And for the next fourteen years the two reunited army buddies maintained a passing friendship.
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