(Both later acknowledged the hilarity might have been as much a phenomenon of workplace chemical inhalants as personal chemistry.) The friendship, happily, proved more enduring than the job or contact high, demolishing the idea that age poses any real gauntlet for kindred spirits. When Alice's physical condition deteriorated to the point that she could no longer live alone in the house she and Jim had purchased decades earlier with a $50 down payment, my mother and her fiancé built an addition onto their own home deep in the New Hampshire woods and cared, selflessly, for her every need.

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