This is an I-Heart podcast.

One morning last December, my co-host, Jess McHugh, and our producer, Amy Gaines-McQuaid, traveled to Rhode Island,

sit down with a woman named Rosemary Coffee.

Oh, he's going to bark at the mailman.

Like all good dogs do.

Boo.

You frank alone.

That's Rosemary, talking to her dog boo.

When Jess and Amy arrived,

Rosemary had pastries from a local bakery waiting for them.

And Rosemary, she likes to take care of people like this.

She's 60 years old and recently retired.

But before that, she spent her career supporting people

when they're at their most vulnerable.

She worked as a community support specialist.

And, for a time, Rosemary took care of Sarah Kavanaugh.

Well, I worked with her, I'm guessing, three years.

Wow.

So.

And it's up to the end.

So it would be right?

Exactly to the point.

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