Hearing has become feeble for him. He is mostly lost in thoughts even when intensely looking at you. Understandably so, as he is only a few years away from a century. She was healthy at 82.

I wanted to break the POSED feel of the picture and suggested she talk to him about something. “Why would I talk to someone who can’t even hear me?” she was quick to retort in curt words. I swallowed mine.

Loneliness assumes a new meaning and dimension in twilight years I suppose. Maybe it looks scarier than it really feels. Maybe not!

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