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Welcome to the WBEZ book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Local author Patrick McShane

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has penned a beautiful tribute to his
late father called Five Days with Dad.

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Now, Patrick McShane has meanted his
life's work to care for older adults.

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Patrick is currently the director of sales
and Marketing at a senior living facility called

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New Pond Village in Walpole. It's
a beautiful spot. Up and out there

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as a speaker many times, he's
written an engaging book that focuses on his

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own family, a big one coping
with the loss of a patriarch, Gerard

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McShane. The inevitability of losing an
elderly parent is something so many of us

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have to come to grips with.
This is just one family story of humor

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amidst the heartbreak of a proud father
who gets the chance to say goodbye to

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his children and they to him.
The story had me tearing up. The

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writing is exceptional and I'd recommend it
to anyone who's experienced the loss of an

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aging parent. Five Days with Dad
by Patrick McShane. That's the book Club.

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