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[quote=Anonymous]My dad didn't remarry, but he did somehow came up for air after two years of intense grief over the loss of my mother after almost 40 years of marriage and a horrific illness to suddenly start dating in his early 70s. To a woman in her 50s. Now, my mother was a decade younger than he was, but this was just surreal. I would have staked my life, my kids' lives, on the fact that he would never date.

I was sort of unhappy about it, one of my brothers was appalled and actively difficult, and the other thought it was great. She dumped him when his faculties began to slip. He moved into a continuing care community where he was living independently with a lot of help, and promptly became "involved" (as in inseparable from) a woman with severe Parkinsons. It was clearly not physical; she was very difficult to understand so I don't even think it was an intellectual connection. He was just a guy who needed to have a wife/partner. She died, and he had a health crisis. He's now in skilled nursing with advanced Alzheimers and if he has a girlfriend next time I see him, I'll be thrilled.[/quote]

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