There's this one very elderly resthome resident, whose husband and daughter both predeceased her, and now she lives there alone and she has pretty bad memory problems where she forgets when and if she did things, but she's often in quite a good mood where she says everything is "marvelous" and she speaks in simple Spanish with you and she drops in Italian phrases, too, like "mille grazi" (sp?) and "arrivaderci" (sp.?).
The other week, too, I noticed that to hold down her hair, she wears paperclips, the big kind, one on each side, for a big swath of hair.
Since then, I've noticed that whenever she needs to hold back her hair, she uses paperclips.
It's so wonderful, and so endearing, and so totally her.
I'm afraid to mention it to her, since she might change it.
What style!
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