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One man I remember had been in the same ward since World War II. IРІР‚в„ўd say the men at the VA hospital were in the worst shape.

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Usually when I made my home rounds, hauling fifty-pound plastic TVs up and down disinfectant-reeking nursing home corridors and retirement centers stinking of smells I could never quite identify, a melange of odors, medicinal, floral, old skin, liquid soap, mashed food left too long on a tray, clumsily applied eau de toilet, and always, eventually, viscous excrement, I came upon subjects wearing the blank stare of the helpless and uninterested, sitting bedside in a wheelchair watching our portable color TV. They didnРІР‚в„ўt expect to go home, and they didnРІР‚в„ўt expect to wait long. A large minority of our subjects were closing in fast on the end. I worked in the field, installing TVs and collecting data from monitors.

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Each TV had a monitor device built into the back. If after six weeks the subject was providing a steady flow of watching an additional four weeks were added on, a reward for being a good subject.

We issued TV sets for six to ten weeks to subjects. Before any such TV Network for the Aged could be produced, our study sought to determine how people in old age homes used TV, which is to say, what they watched. Administrators could use their own in-house TV channel to communicate with and instruct their residents. The grand scheme of the study, of which I was only faintly aware, had something to do with designing in-house cable TV channels for life-care communities (old-age homes, as they were commonly known). In the early 1970s while a college student, I worked as a research assistant for the Andrus Gerontology Center at USC, as part of a National Institute of Mental Health study called РІР‚СљTelevision: A Therapeutic Tool for the Aged.РІР‚Сњ He Gave Us the World as It Should Be By Dennis Bartel BALTIMORE SUN (May 29, 1992) This howl seems to be signaling a long story. WeРІР‚в„ўve gotten so familiar with the varied coyote calls Erin and I have begun to identify some. TheyРІР‚в„ўve taken up residence right behind our home on the abandoned golf course.

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Admittedly, this is not a finished work, but itРІР‚в„ўs three-times as long as originally written and slowly as I wedge in the 800 the crack is widening and I see watery visions of old people in nursing homes who are visited by a college student who gives them a television, free, out of nowhere, incredibly РІР‚вЂњ and suddenly in the middle distance I hear coyotes howl. But I didnРІР‚в„ўt give up, havenРІР‚в„ўt given up, and for the third or fourth time IРІР‚в„ўve taken up the 800 again, here. The 800 ran on the Sun pages and moved on without me.

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Maybe these 800 words, I thought, would lead me to a cold cracked opening, a passage back to my fading youth, a place where I could ruminate on what happened even as I watch it happen again. Feeling emboldened, feeling like I could write any story I chose to write, I saw the 800 words as my first attempt to scratch the surface on a frozen lake, deep and wide. It was a good year for me, perhaps my most productive year in the old bookish sense of producing published work.

In the autumn of 1992, the editors at The Baltimore Sun showed generosity by permitting me 800 words for a dance on their editorial pages. DJB comments on his remembrance of Lawrence Welk.Р”Р‡or decades, I had been looking for ways to write about this three-year episode in my early-20s when, in my typically inside out ways, elder care lay at the heart of my life.