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Maine’s memory writers: Bonds flourish at nursing home when caregivers learn residents’ stories
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Seeing Ms Alexis Cook in her wheelchair here, one would not know that she loves beaches or that she enjoys hip-hop music.
ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
AUGUSTA, Maine – Ms Alexis Cook, whose ex-navy father worked as a farmer, used to run around the family farm in idyllic rural Maine as a little girl, jumping into ponds and climbing trees.
She, her three sisters and one brother had chickens they named Henny, Penny and Jenny.
