"Well maaamaaaa", - I roll my eyes when my motherasked if I was warm enough. My mother is 70 years old. Me, respectively, slightly over 30. "Well, what do you want, for me you are always a child," says my mother and as though in between keeps a watch so that I do not forget to take gloves. Yes, my mother is not about age. It's forever. This is perfectly known Ada Keating, which this year turned 98 years old. The woman had four children. The youngest girl, Janet, died when she was only 13 years old. The rest of the children grew up, learned, created their own families. Except one. Ada's son Tom remained single. All his life he worked as an artist-decorator, and the family did not start. Therefore, take care of him, when Tom was very difficult to cope with domestic chores, there was no one. The 80-year-old man was forced to move to a nursing home. "The son needs care. So I should be there, "Ada decided. I decided - I packed my things and moved to the same nursing home in a room next door. The employees of the house say that my mother and son are just inseparable. They play board games, they love to watch TV shows together.Photo: still from video“I tell Tom every day:“Good night, every morning the first thing I do is go to him and wish him good morning,” the publication quotes Ada as saying. The woman, by the way, has worked as a visiting nurse all her life, so she knows a thing or two about caring for the elderly. “When I go to the hairdresser, he waits for me. And he’ll definitely hug me when I come back.” Tom is also happy with everything. “I’m very happy that my mother now lives here. She really cares about me. Sometimes she even shakes her finger at me and tells me to behave well,” laughs Tom. “Ada and Tom have such a touching relationship. In general, you don’t often see a mother and child in the same nursing home. So we try to do everything to make them comfortable. And we’re glad that they like it here,” said the manager of the home where the mother and son live. By the way, the couple is not alone at all. Ada’s daughters, Tom’s sisters, Barbara and Margie, visit them regularly. And along with them, Ada's grandchildren come to visit the elderly. "It's impossible to stop being a mother," says Ada. "They are inseparable," say the staff at the nursing home.

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