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Daily Archives: August 20, 2026

We would have celebrated her birthday this week, but…

Phone calls that you receive at 4:15 am are never good ones. So when I groggily grabbed my phone on July 14th, 2025, and saw that the caller was Charter Senior Living, I knew the conversation would be about my mom and would not be pleasant. I wasn’t totally surprised to hear that my mother, Margaret Burke, was…