What a beautiful story!
At 61, while watching my parents declining with dementias and old age, selling the house they've been in for half of their adult lives, moving back relentlessly to the city and forgetting the reality of this world, I can relate and understand. I am not looking forward to the next step and yet, years go on...
Aging and dying, I am sure, is a terrible scenario. For all implied.
Life was fairly easy for me because they made it that way. I cannot picture a day without them and even if we are hundreds of kilometers away and are with each other perhaps 20 days a year.
Thank you for the story.