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The SWWOOM Club
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Navigating Eldercare & Dementia
By Suzanne F. Ruff
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
~Jane Howard
SWWOOM was the acronym for our club: Seven Women Watching Over One Man. Who was the One Man? Dad. And the seven women? Dad’s “gals” — three daughters and four granddaughters. There wasn’t a male offspring until his two great-grandsons arrived!
Dad, a recovering alcoholic since 1982, became a widower in 2003. Before Mom died after a long illness, she scolded him, “I’ll ask God if I can come and haunt you if you go back to drinking.”
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