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Author Description I am a retired English teacher; I am approaching seventy.<br />I spent thirty years of my life teaching literature in independent secondary schools and in small private colleges.<br />When I retired, I cut off my schoolteacher’s bun and headed to the Tidewater region of Virginia.<br />At the end of 2012 I had a terrible fall. I spent eight very long months in an assisted living facility in Norfolk, Virginia. The name of that facility is The Lydia Roper Home. <br /><br />I arrived at the Roper Home in bad shape. In addition to undiagnosed neurological problems, I was in the grip of a paralyzing depression, and I was definitely not cheered up by offers of bingo or arts and crafts. I don’t “do” activities. In an effort to preserve my last shreds of sanity, I asked permission to lead my own activity, a Bible study. I had taught the Hebrew Bible as Literature for nearly thirty years so I knew I could do it.<br /><br />Sometime in March of 2013 we started with Genesis. There were five of us, and those four women were my pioneers. By March of 2015, one of our original number had died, another had moved to a nursing home. Two of those pioneers are still there.<br /><br />I left the Lydia Roper Home on the last day of October 2013 and moved into a wonderful co-op, in a building erected in 1928, in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk. For a year after that, I travelled once a week, at the request of the Bible "ladies," to teach the New Testament.

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