My mom passed away last November. Today I took care of one last detail for her -- I filed her last tax return. She owed nothing, of course, since she had spent $58,000 to pay for her nursing home care in 2012.
I had been putting off this last act of my mother's care. I have been taking care of every detail of her finances since our dad died in 2003. That's ten years. I have sweated each and every cent that went out of her funds since I knew they had to last her until this day. They lasted. As my dad always wished, their money and their lives came out equal in the end or almost equal. There were a few dollars left for my sister, brother and me.
Thanks, mom and dad, for a life well lived in all ways including financially. You have set a high standard for all of us.
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