[carlo]

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Or subjects you to some similar type of humiliation. You are fifty years old and it has just started recently. Only you and he know about it and we can assume it will stay that way. And the reason you are considering enduring this abuse is because he has also given you a three hundred dollar a week raise. And there is no way you could get that extra money elsewhere. But it is hard to look at yourself in the mirror. So you think the right and admirable thing to do is quit.

Except that with that extra money you can afford to keep you aging parents out of a dismal nursing home that will make their last years intolerable. You can instead afford home care. What is the admirable choice now?


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"Mother Courage" by Bertolt Brecht. Woman lives in a small hut when an "official" shows up and promptly moves in and she becomes his servant. She provides for him, does his laundry,sweeps and cleans, listens to his chatter and never a word spoken otherwise. This goes on for many years.

Then one day the "official" dies. The body is taken, tossed outside, and the old lady continues with her sweping.