Wild About My Enemy by Anne William EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Anne William
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- Language: English
- Genre: Clean & Wholesome Romance
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Ross
SOUNDING like a mix between Oprah and the Cookie Monster, I walk
through the memory care facility handing out small baggies of homemade
cookies.“You get a cookie, and you get a cookie,” I say to the nurses,“and
here is an especially large bag of cookies for you and your daughter, Mrs.
Sara.”
“Ross, you know my little girl’s favorite day of the week is Thursday,
thanks to you and your delicious Ranger Cookies!”
Lotti, a resident, yells down the hall in our direction, “Almost as
delicious as a certain ranger I know…”
I can’t help but chuckle at that, because though being described as
delicious by an eighty-year-old is just weird, I have to admit her unrelenting
flirting is fun. And who really minds an occasional ego boost?
“Lotti, he’s a park ranger not a dessert,” Mrs. Sara says, as she points
me in the direction of the back porch. “He’s mumbling toward the woods
again. Something about bears.”
I walk outside and see Roger shaking his fist toward the red and orangeleafed trees that line the property.
“Ross! There you are, son, I knew you’d come help me. That darn bear
took off with my cookies again and I’m thinking about going out there to
get them back.”
There is no bear, nothing stole his cookies, and as much as I’d love to
be, I’m not his son.
“Don’t worry, Mr. Dally, I baked you some more.” I hand Roger a large
Ziplock bag of my famous coconut and cranberry-filled cookies, the thirtyfourth batch I’ve baked for him this year. Maybe it’s excessive to bring him
a fresh batch of cookies every week that I visit him, but because of his
Alzheimers, Roger forgets a lot of things, ever since I brought him cookies
for the first time, it’s one of the few things he consistently remembers and
talks about. Plus, it’s the little things that bring the biggest joys, especially
since Roger doesn’t have a lot of family around to visit him. “I don’t know
about you, but I don’t think I have it in me to fight a bear tonight. How
about we go play a game of chess instead?”
I can tell he’s reluctant to let the fictional bear go, but he nods and
strolls over to the nearest residential care patio table as I fetch the game out
of the community entertainment cabinet.
When he moved into this facility four years ago, he only had symptoms
of memory loss, but I’ve noticed subtle hints of dementia have crept in over
the past year. It hurts to see him decline, considering all he and his family
once were.
“How’s my darling Aurora?” Same question as last week, and the week
before.
It hurts that he still brings her up, like she never left, but I get it. She’ll
always be his daughter. As much as I’m still angry with her, I find it hard to
pretend I don’t miss her. So, I play along to keep him calm, and make him
happy.
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