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When adult children want deeper connection with aging parents

My dad and I have never talked about feelings or anything real, and now he's in his seventies and I can see his health declining, and I don't know how to bridge thirty years of surface-level conversations before it's too late.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Time is running out on a relationship that never quite began.

Ideas that help explain it
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