Opinion | The Loss of America's — and My Family's — Shared Reality
My family lost its shared reality. But some ties still bind. By Beth Macy Ms. Macy is the author of âDopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America .â The author with her mother in a memory care unit in 2019.Credit...Tom Landon XENIA, OHIO â My 93-year-old mother was dying. It was the Saturday after the election, and the suburban Georgia votes were being tallied. My sister Cookie and I were sitting in Momâs memory-care unit, the lights dimmed. About the only thing Cookie and I agreed on politically was not to discuss the orange elephant in the room.
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