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Isabel Moore, a product of a sheltered Catholic upbringing. She nursed her widowed father in his long final illness. Thirty years old at the time of her father’s death, Isabel finds herself with unaccustomed freedom from his constant needs. She must come to terms both with her lost faith and her lost youth. She takes a job with a social services agency surveying the living arrangements of people who care for the elderly in their homes, a position that makes her look into a variety of homes, both loveless and loving. Simultaneously eager to experience life...

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