How We Tell the Days Apart: Life in a Senior Residential Condominium

By Diana O'Hehir

Moment by moment the events in an adult condominium are dramatic, astonishing, sad, funny, tense, unexpected. They involve life, death and, yes,birth. As depicted by Diana O;Hejis in "How We Tell the Days Apart." romance, also, is still part of the schedule for older adults: "Hello, I said, looking you right in the eyes/ and you looked good." Most of all, affection and loving wit are what you wll find in this heartfelt book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543438758

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Copyright © 2017 by Diana O’Hehir.

Library of Congress Control Number:             2017949879

ISBN:                               Hardcover               978-1-5434-3877-2

                                        Softcover                 978-1-5434-3876-5

                                        eBook                      978-1-5434-3875-8

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Rev. date: 08/19/2017

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CONTENTS

How We Tell The Days Apart

Partners

Slant

Enemy

Home

Farewell, Jim

Protest

People Worse Off

Bedbugs

Why I Fell

Ice Blindness

SECTION II

Up And Down

Red String

Last Will And Lament

Little Gold Chairs

Walgreen’s

Practicing

Quarantine

Universe

Cures

SECTION III

1:30 Am Visitor

Losing It

Homeowners

Execution

Water Leak

Surrender Dorothy

The Ultimate Sin

Earthquake Etc. Poem

Friendship

Grace

SECTION IV

Sheila’s Party

Sheila, Futures

Apocalypse

Occupy

Midnight Hour

Pigeons

Restaurant Questions

Six Red Pills

Gardens

New Year’s

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Heartfelt and loving thanks to my friend Maurice Bassan, who has encouraged me in this project in every way.

And thanks also to my patient fellow writing-group members, who listened and helped.

Further gratitude to my fellow residents in The Merrill, who passed around typed texts and remained interested.

At no time in these poems is anyone from my life presented directly, and all names which might be connected with an event have been changed.

HOW WE TELL THE DAYS APART

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