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Podcast: Backstory Sessions
Episode: A Cup of Tea On the Commode
Description: Love sometimes looks like sacrifice. Sometimes it looks like patience. And sometimes, it looks like a son who chooses to stay.
In this powerful episode of Backstory Sessions: Love Stories, we sit down with author Mark Steven Porro to talk about one of the most profound forms of love there is—the love of a caregiver for a parent. At age 55, Mark stepped away from his independent bachelor life to become a full-time caregiver to his 90-year-old mother, a woman who was sharp-witted, stubborn, funny, and slowly slipping into memory loss.
His...