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Caregiver

Dawna Elaine Page
4 min readApr 26, 2020

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A caregiver gives care.

What exactly does that mean?

The moment I first saw Victor, he was wearing cargo shorts, a striped button-down shirt, and deck shoes. He still has the same bright smile and twinkly green eyes. I knew at that moment that he was the one. We fell in love. We began to care for one another. We used to joke that we shared a brain — he had half, I had half. Nothing — I mean, everything — has changed…

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Dawna Elaine Page

Mama of three. To one, a wife. Ambiguous grief. That’s my life. (Among other things concerning brains). “Words are all I have,” goes the song and I go too.