A Legacy of Honor: What's His Secret?
by Marilynn Chadwick
When people meet my now 97-year-old dad, they often ask me, "What's his secret?" "How does your dad look so young and stay so sharp?" Daddy would be the first to tell you that part of his secret is that he had a great wife. He was married to my mom for nearly 70 years.
My mother was nearly bedridden for the last ten or so years of her life. A ruptured appendix and complications from a subsequent surgery robbed a once robust grandmother of her ability to walk. Some of her ability to think and talk faded, but enough of her razor-sharp mind remained to make conversation…
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