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Article: BROOKLYN PARK: Senior center to celebrate 9 years with open house
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- Maryland Gazette
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Mary Humphry had been attending programs and classes at the
Brooklyn Park Senior Center last year, but stopped because she was
depressed about the death of one of her children.
It was only recently the Brooklyn resident returned, lured by a
computer class. She found more than learning to use the Internet or
other software, though. She found a community of friends that has
helped each other get through difficult events like cancer surgeries
and other deaths of family members.
"We know when someone isn't here: Are they all right?" Humphry
said of what she and the other seniors ask each other. "I think it
makes a difference to know others are going through the same thing."
That camaraderie ...