If this photographic journal does not touch you, you must be one cold-hearted SOB.

What is my obsession with old people and death lately anyway?

After I finished reading Tuesdays With Morrie, I watched the movie on YouTube, then I watched the Ted Koppel interviews. What else can I say about them other than this: I feel as though I have a piece of Morrie in my heart now.

It's caused me to reflect quite a bit on my relationships with the old people I've known who've passed — my dear and beautiful grandmother on my father's side who died from cancer in 2001, my great-grandmother and great-grandfather on my mother's side, mean old Mrs. Fox, that crotchety old woman I used to take care of who used to hide her teeth and her hearing aids because she was afraid the black caretakers would steal them — all of whom left an extraordinary impression on me in different ways. For the whole of my life thus far, I haven't known that many old people who've been at death's door and I've always felt a bit fortunate for that because it's so hard to say good-bye to the people you care about.

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