Daughter is in her late 50s, with a difficult mother who is in her mid 80s. Daughter’s mother, V, has always been “kind of nutty” as Daughter describes her. They were semi-estranged for years but not entirely out of contact, with Daughter living in a different state.
One day, Daughter got a call from V’s neighbor, who sounded alarmed. She was used to seeing V standing on her front porch every day, staring out and saying little. V is a widow, living alone and Daughter is her only child. The neighbor had not seen V for over two weeks and was not sure who was supposed to be looking out for this elder next door. Daughter called her uncle T
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