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<v ->My mom always told me if I learned how to cook,</v>

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I would always have a job.

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Senior living isn't what people think it is.

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Food is huge for everybody.

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I always start the conversation on where you're from

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because where you're from is usually what you like to eat.

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If you're from the South,

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you like your collard greens and green beans soft,

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but if you're from the North,

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you like your vegetables al dente.

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Although they enjoy really fancy, high-end things,

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a lot of times I end up hearing they just want simple.

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They want home-cooked comfortable meals.

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They bring us recipes of what their parents made for them,

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and then we try to recreate these recipes,

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and it makes them remember their parents

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and their family and their growing up.

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If you just let them be involved in the decision-making,

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then they can't be mad at you about anything

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because you helped me make this menu.

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Makes them feel at home, it really does.

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These 20 years has really opened my eyes

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to what senior living and retirement really is.

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It is good friends, family, and great food.