He can’t look after himself anymore. Up until a couple of years back I used to go down on the coach to see him from where I now live but he'd started to forget who I was. Mr Ritter had become a bit of a dickwhacker. The doctors called it senile dementia. He kept asking me to take him bags of blackballs and bunches of Canna lilies when I visited and told everyone that I was his young wife.
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