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> [“Three Plagues of nursing home existence: boredom, loneliness, and helplessness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/atul-gawande/three-plagues-of-nursing-home-existence-boredom-loneliness-and/)

[Atul Gawande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/atul-gawande/)

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> [The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/the-desolation-and-terror-of-for-the-first-time-realizing-that-the/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

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