10 years ago
Too Much Stuff
My mother survived to the age of ninety-three, so she had time to develop a number of habits that people now consider to be symptomatic of dementia. Hoarding, for example. She lived in Santa Barbara, in an apartment with a perfectly adequate kitchen, but in order to store her dishes she had to buy a freestanding cabinet and install it in the dining room. She needed her kitchen cupboards for other purposes...
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