I found this note in a box of old letters my mother had saved (a treasure!). The note is from my grandmother written to a friend when she was place in a nursing home. It reads:
Dear Lillian,
I want you to know that I'm living in a large home. It is a very nice home and very nice for people who can't stay along anymore. I almost had a fire one day when I was cooking a meal for myself so I can't live alone anymore.
Here she is smiling in the different st[age]s of her life.