Chapter 19 One Step Closer

"What are you doing today?" Nicholas asked this morning at breakfast. "What time are you going to the hospital?"

Nathalie looked at her watch. "I think I'll visit him this afternoon," she said. "My father said some of his friends will come to visit and he seems very happy. He probably misses the times when he was still working and the arrival of his friends will definitely cheer him up."

"That's good. When they talk about the past and reminisce together, it will make them happy and the body responds well," Nicholas said. "That's why some elderly people prefer to live in a nursing home rather than being lonely at their child's house."

"Because in a nursing home they will get friends of the same age who can understand each other?