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    “OLD AGE, PERSONIFIED” – BY Des Kelly   Unfortunately, the author of this touching poem is not known, but the “post” on FB came in via Max “The Body” Philisaire, and my youngest son, Warren, and, if this isn’t “OLD AGE PERSONIFIED” I would not honestly know, what IS!!. Because we Do have many elderly blokes who are members of eLanka, yet, not on Facebook, I have decided that this would be a most interesting & “moving” bit of reading for themselves and their families to read, given what seems to also be “going on” in some Nursing Homes and Special Accommodation Homes, right now.      When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian Country Town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions, they found this ...