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Writer learns that caregivers are blessed

After retiring briefly in my early 60s, I decided to resume teaching, this time at Western Washington University. It wasn't long before I was faced with an entirely different kind of role - that of caregiver.

When I began looking after my dying husband, I could not begin to understand the depth and breadth of what was before me, although I had raised six children. My life was no longer my own.