I Don’t Care That My Dad Is Homeless and Has Dementia

What happens when the parent-child relationship can’t be repaired but the elder is in need of a caretaker? For this writer the answer wasn’t handle with care.

Andrew Ricketts
LEVEL
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6 min readDec 3, 2019

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Andrew Ricketts
LEVEL
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I’m a Caribbean and American writer from New York. My stories are about coming-of-age, learning how to relate, and family. It’s a living, breathing memoir.