Dying While Dressed Wrong

Dementia has no fashion sense

Stacey Curran

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Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

I lost it the second I spotted her, perched on the edge of her bed.

I was laughing so hard I could barely talk. My hysterics prompted her to mimic me.

When I finally composed myself, she stopped laughing too. I then asked my mother if she knew what I found so funny.

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Stacey Curran

Former journalist; few N.E. Press Assoc. Awards, few Boston Globe Magazine essays, @TheBelladonnaComedy @Slackjaw @BostonAccent, @WBUR, grocery lists.