Yep. VA doesn’t mess around.

My husband’s grandmother was born in one of those miner houses in Pottsville, lived her entire life there. She lived her last 12 years at Providence Place, which is a really nice assisted living place. She loved it. Gramma’s Restaurant was her favorite place on earth. Whenever we spent time with her, it felt like everyone knew everyone. That could just be because she lived there for almost 100 years, but it had a very small town vibe to it.

That being said, the hospital could only do so much for her husband, which was frustrating because they didn’t have family there to easily get them to a better hospital for frequent treatments & follow ups, etc. (we’re all in Philly area).

There’s a lot to do when you visit - big public pool, lots of hiking, kayaking, etc. Your dad might like that, too, if he’s an active senior.

I had a teacher in college who was writing a book about Emily Dickinson and he believed that everything she wrote was about sex.

He shot down anyone who got something else out of a poem of hers, and it got to the point where students just went along with him so their grades didn’t suffer. Made for much less interesting discussions (for me at least) with the same people talking about sexual symbolism and the rest of the class not sharing their interpretations for fear of going against the “accepted” themes.