It's healthy to keep friends nearby
I was only half kidding when I said Mom might love her
furniture more than her own children. When it came time to downsize, she was torn
up for months about having to part with her precious pieces. “Some people just need their things around them,” my
sister tried to explain. (She would know.) Hearing that helped me appreciate Mom’s dilemma
better, and I realized, of course, that she’d invested decades collecting and
refinishing her antiques, but it wasn’t until I pressed Mom a little more that
I finally understood why she was so attached to her possessions.
