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Living the DREAM

When did the role reversal take place? Some time when my mind was elsewhere, that’s for sure. One minute, I was coasting along, just emerging from that phase where I had teenagers and elderly parents to care for simultaneously. Now I was being confronted by my children’s fears that I was getting on a bit and might not be up to managing my domestic affairs any more.

Louise, my eldest and ever the official spokesperson for the three, had apparently

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