Ben in Brandon: Boyce Sweat's world is filled with car accidents and heart attacks and broken hips and lymphomas and tumors.
But he's smiling on a Thursday morning as he walks toward Effie Clark, 86, who was baptized in Moore's Lake in 1941 and raised four generations in Dover. And now, after a 4 a.m. fall and a lonely call to 911, Clark has moved from the home her husband built in the country to a suite in an assisted-living center.
"Come on in, " Clark says.
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