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Diving for Pearls

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Diving for Pearls

Unlocking secret value, choosing love by another's eyes, and a love's labour lost.

Luke Burgis
Feb 20, 2021
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Diving for Pearls

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In 2019, my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The decline had come swiftly. A week later, my mom fell and broke her femur bone—the biggest bone in the body. 

She called me at 8:00 a.m. on a Thursday morning while she was lying on the floor of their home in Grand Rapids, MI. When I received the call, I was at my house in Washington (DC), maki…

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