The Smell of Love: When Caregiving Turns Marriage Into Survival

PART 2

The morning news kept talking, like it could fill the room with numbers and make the smell disappear.

I sat in the folding chair beside Eleanor’s bed with her hand in mine, listening to a cheerful voice explain how “consumer confidence” was trending up, how “markets” were “optimistic,” how the world was “moving forward.”

In our living room, nothing …

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