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Highlights From Highland Manor

since becoming housed here since this year july first two thousand and seventeen, tubby more precise where with thee missus, amidst bucolic environs, (one could don underwear Schwenksville, Pennsylvania trees abundant with leaves of grass spare zip cone: one nine four seven three, this resident doth not find ***** disproportionate amount of time, he spends never to overhear the mostly soundproof walls inside apartment b44 assigned midyear, one bedroom living social space gives ample opportunity to assess linear ratcheting asper elderly folks inch along chronological space/time continuum fragile as jasperware many experience diminution of vital sensory organs, and oft time cannot hear even without television blasting away, no doubt harboring anticipatory anxiey sans, grim reaper's unannounced visit they fear their non verbal body language (when aye espy and stride-rite past, an old lady or man riding shot gun securely strapped in wheel chair, shuffling back where buffalo used to roam, or trudging to common all purpose gathering place) speaks volumes analogous to a frightened deer when caught blindsided within bright lights of an automobile 'ere unsure which way to go, and dashing out in the thick of evening rush hour traffic, lacking notion, the figurative coast not clear subsequently doe ting bucks killed, where birds of prey thence loftily circle gracefully gliding within upper atmospheric air page number two: upon scrutinizing what doth appear as a hollowed out existence induces me to de clear to maximize utilizing each precious moment 'ere before each major metaphorical cog and gear frankly zaps, this dude looks like a lady, cuz ah ma longish bedraggled hydrogen peroxide tinted hair me haint give a rats ass what rumor mongers relish, and behind me back jeer Since old people lack for purposefulness tis unlike to leer that one day (fast as snap of fingers), lack of being ambulatory t'will be near and upon limitation in physical functionality, aye aim to app pear motivated to partake of mental exercises just sitting on me rear.

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