The Last Days of Mrs. Allen
for Brian Wilson and family in Red Deer
Over many days in the Summer of 1971,
you are visiting the oldest patient in her room
in the geriatrics ward of an Edmonton Alberta hospital.
“How old are you?”
“Oh, one hundred. Or so.”
“When were you born?”
“On the 22nd of June.”
“What year?”
“I don’t know. I lost track.”
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