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[quote=Anonymous]I get it OP. I called my dad every night for years after my mom died, and I remember being annoyed a LOT of the time. At first it was because he was lonely and later it became a way to keep tabs on him from a distance after he developed Alzheimers. I remember for a while I'd do it while the kids were in the tub - they could shout hello etc on speaker phone - and it was a successful way to multitask. And after a while it became somewhat routinized - the calls were brief and not terribly informative, just a way to check in. You're not going to want to hear this, but when he became too ill to talk on the phone and then after he died, I missed those calls a lot. In retrospect they were an anchor for me too. I'm not trying to guilt trip you because I know how hard the whole sandwich years are. I missed plenty of nights and complained plenty! But I'm also glad that I had that time with my dad.[/quote]
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