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A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers - spouses, parents, and friends of the elderly and ill - illuminating critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy - and "providing comfort in the time-honored form of shared experience" (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune) .In 2010, journalist Nell Lake began sitting in on the weekly meetings of a local hospital's caregivers support group. Soon members invited her into their lives. For two years, she brought empathy, insight, and an eye for detail to understanding Penny, a fifty-year-old botanist caring for her aging mother; Daniel, a survivor of Nazi Germany who tends his ailing wife; William, whose wife suffers from Alzheimer's; and others with whom all caregivers will identify.