Lorene Cary: ...my year with nana at the end of her century

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our guest on this episode is beloved writer, educator and social activist Lorene Cary. She is the author of several books, including "Black Ice", "The Price of a Child" and "Pride".

Lorene’s most recent book is a memoir called, "Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century". It’s received rave reviews including one from O, the Oprah Magazine which called Ladysitting simply, “Radiant”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:12.0	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:14.4	Our very special guest on this episode is beloved author, educator, and social activist,
0:20.0	Lorraine Carey.
0:22.6	She's the author of several books,
0:28.8	including Black Ice, the Price of a Child, and Pride. Lorraine's most recent book is a memoir called Lady Sitting, My Year with Nana at the end of her century. It's received rave reviews,
0:35.0	including one from O, the Oprah magazine, which called
0:37.9	Lady Sitting simply Radiant.
0:40.5	Lorraine, thank you so very much for joining us.
0:43.0	Oh, I'm delighted.
0:44.2	I'm delighted.
0:44.8	Thank you.
0:45.1	You know, as a two-generational mother-daughter duo, Laura and I are always interested in
0:51.4	multi-generational stories from other people's families.
0:54.3	So tell us the story behind the book, Lady Sitting.
0:59.0	The story behind it is our year and a half, close to two years, of having my grandmother with us on hospice.
1:12.5	She came to us from the hospital.
1:14.4	We expected that she had somewhere between weeks and months to live.
1:21.9	And then she got better or as she said, oh, honey, you're treating me so well i can't die and uh she she lived on with us
1:33.7	she hadn't wanted to come she had lived up until 99 years old in her home and wanted to live
1:43.5	there alone um on her own terms, but just couldn't.
1:50.4	You said that she was terrified of death, and when you just said how she told you, I can't die,
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