this sounds like a prayer and a thanksgiving, for having found comfort in your own way. It sounds as though you have found the same peace that my mother found in taking care of her two, [yes, two] ex-husbands in the last years of their lives. They somehow found their way back to her, when they had no-where else to go; because of their misdeeds. I helped her with my father; but never really understood why she did it, until later when she explained to me as you have here. [She was an orphan and loved my grandmother as she would have loved her own mother.] I salute you and her for giving when many would not have bothered because of the abuse they had suffered at the hands of these men. I find no fault with either your work or your logic and reason. May you be blessed for the help and understanding that you gave.
~ Geezer.
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