Reminiscing with reality
"What about your marriage?" Anna asks Ella, a fellow patient. "Did you have a good man?"
"He was a son of a bitch," Ella replies casually. "Hot tempered, stubborn, and the bastard ran around on me."
"My God! Why did you stay with him?"
"Sex," Ella sighs with resignation. "Ya, it was mostly sex with a little love sprinkled in, I guess."
On the serious side - Ella advising Anna how to survive as a nursing home patient
"You give them everything you can here, so you don't ever have to give them what you can't. It's sorta a patients' golden rule of survival."
George, not able to see the bright side since he was forced into becoming a crusty old man
"Where in the hell you been, you old cob," an old crony to George.
"Got locked up in a goddam bedpan palace," George growls.
"What'da do, insult some building inspector," the crony banters back.
"Shit, I've been doin that for years. Shut up and give us a couple of your breakfast specials."
Love, Laugh and Rage with these noble characters so you'll know how it's done when your time comes.
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