DOWNSIZING IN AUSTRALIA
STORY TWO Bill and Janette
A good friend of mine , Bruce , had elderly parents , Bill and Janette , who were in their 80s and still living in the family home where they had raised four kids . The kids were long gone , and they now had 13 grandchildren . They did not want to leave the home that they had worked so hard for and where they had gathered so many memories .
As Bruce was the eldest of the four kids and , even more importantly , lived the closest to his mother and father , he was in charge of nearly everything from mowing the lawns , gardening and organising maintenance around the home to taking both parents to medical appointments . Bill and Janette hadn ’ t driven for some 10 years .
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