1) The document is a letter from a parent to their child about caring for them in old age with patience and understanding. 2) It asks the child to be patient if the parent gets dirty, needs help dressing, or repeats stories, and to listen to them instead of interrupting. 3) It reminds the child that the parent cared for them as a child and taught them many things, and asks the child to now help the parent as their abilities decline with age.

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2. Dear son , dear
daughter...

3. The day when you will find that I became very old , try
to have some patience to me
and try to understand me.

4. If I get dirty by eating …
If I have some difficulty dressing… be patient! Remember
the hours that I spent to learn you
any sorts of things when you were small.

5. If I repeat the same
thing dozens of time,
does not interrupt me!
Listen to me!
When you were small, you kept
asking me to read you the same
history, evening after evening,
until you fall asleep. And I made
it !

6. If I do not wash myself any more so often under the
shower, do not reprimand and do not tell me that it is a
shame.
Remember how many excuses I had to invent to make you
take a bath you were small.

7. By seeing my ignorance
towards the new
technologies, do not laugh
of me but leave me rather
the time to understand

8. I taught you so many things indeed to eat well …to dress
well… to behave well… how to confront the problems of the
life …

9. If I sometimes miss memory or am not able to
follow a conversation, leave me the necessary
time to recollect and if I do not reach there, do
not become a nervous and arrogant person because
the most important for me,… it is to be with you
and to be able to speak to you.

10. If I refuse to eat, do not force myself !
I know very well when I am hungry and when I am not
hungry. .

11. When my poor legs will not allow me any more
to move as before …

12. …Help me in the same way as I held your hands
to learn you make your first steps.

13. And when one day, I shall say to you that I do not want to
live any more …
that I want to die, do not get angry …
because one day, you will also understand !

14. Try to understand that at certain age, we do not
really live any more. We simply survive!

15. One day, you will understand that in spite of all my errors,
I always wanted what was best for you and that
I prepared you the ground for when you’ve grown up.

16. You do not have to feel sad, unfortunate or incompetent
in front of my old age and of my state.
You have to stay near me, try to understand what I live,
to make your best as I did at your birth.

17. Help me to walk, help me to end my life
with love and patience. The only way that I need
to thank you for it, it is a smile and
a lot of love from you.

18. I love you …my son, my daughter!
Your Dad, your Mum

19. To close the music and leave this slide show.
I received this slide show of a person who asked me to
translate it into English. It was not signed; I ignore the
author.
I offer it to you to all because I found it really touching.
It should be the same thing for you!