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Feeding my dad

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Feeding my dad

Excerpt from the memoir project: Houses We Did Not Buy

Amy Oscar
Jan 1, 2014
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Feeding my dad

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In the nursing home, everyone gathers in the dining room. Aides serve each resident individually, reading the nutritionist’s orders from small slips of paper with each resident’s name.

I pick up Dad’s tray. The little strip says, Ray Ozarow: Pureed. It lists all the items on his tray: chopped chicken, chopped asparagus, chopped kasha varnishkes. Which i…

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