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    For these homebound seniors, poems offer food for the soul

    Feb 21, 2020 4 minutes
    Carmella Parry displays a poem of her own next to a poem sent by Citymeals on Wheels in her apartment in Gramercy Park on Jan. 22, 2020, in New York.

    Carmella Parry has lived in her fourth-floor walk-up in Gramercy Park for over 70 years.

    At 94, she hasn’t been able to leave this small studio on the east side of Manhattan for quite a while. Her sisters Tessie and Yolanda, also in their 90s, live just a few blocks away, but like tens of thousands of older New Yorkers, they just aren’t able to get out anymore.

    But Ms. Parry is a little tickled today as she tells some guests how she likes to compose a few limericks for her sisters now and then. She’ll slip them into a birthday card – which she sends through the mail – or even just recite them over the

    Nourishing body and soul 

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