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We shared our pain. This is Elsa. She has a fourteen year old daughter with severe cerebral palsy<\/a>. While I was tending my father in his last days, Elsa came to my mind often. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As four of us turned my father to the other side, or gave him liquids to suck on a sponge, or caressed his forehead, or patted his back, or sang to him\u2026I thought of Elsa who has been doing this all alone for 14 years for her daughter, in a one room place, often with no water. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Elsa has not gone out alone in all that time except to take her other kids to school. I don’t know how she has done it. But\u2026yesterday she came to get her weekly basic food basket. I wanted her to know\u2026.that I now know. <\/p>\n\n\n

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And because my singing voice is cringeworthy, we put ‘Lean on Me<\/a>‘ on the speaker and we stood back to back leaning on each other whole holding hands. I will never desert Elsa. Or any of the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am in mourning one week, and feel like a turtle on its back. She has been in mourning for 14 years and loves her daughter ferociously. Her weekly food supply provided by donor<\/a> Howard and our Automercado program is so much more than food. I get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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