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They left us everythingPlum Johnson

They left us everything

2014279 pages
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"A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents--first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother--author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be? I know how to buy garbage bags. But the…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2016
    Penguin Canada · 288 pages · 9780735233133
  • Other · English · 2016
    G.P. Putnam's Sons · 279 pages · 9780399184093
  • Other · English · 2016
    Thorndike Press Large Print · 9781410493354
  • Other · English · 2014
    Penguin · 274 pages · 9780143189053
Adult children of aging parentsPersonal belongingsHouse furnishingsFamiliesFamilyParent and adult childHomes and hauntsCaregivers