Word: bedford
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...families differ in countless ways. Yet elder-care specialists see common patterns emerge among siblings as the death of a parent looms. One such dynamic is a renewed competition for their parents' love and favor. "You become needy children again, not getting enough of the goods," says Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford, a professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis...
...even possible for sisters and brothers to overcome ancient grievances as they band together for their parents' sake. As a child, psychologist Bedford, for example, often fought with her twin, Barbara, and her elder sister Margie. In adulthood, the three women harbored grudges and rarely saw one another. But in 1985, after Margie had a serious accident, her siblings teamed up to tend to her through months of rehab. The three of them talked through their childhood conflicts. Margie was their father's favorite, Barbara was their mother's, and Victoria felt like a neglected middle child. The women acknowledged...
...scattered sisters made sure that one of them visited her at least once a month. Barbara, who lived farthest, could visit only twice yearly, but the others understood. When their mother died, the three sisters comforted one another--as they still do. "I don't need a support group," Bedford says. "My sisters are 100% there for me in my grief...
DIED. HERBERT WARREN WIND, 88, writer of elegant prose on golf for the New Yorker and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; of pneumonia; in Bedford, Mass. The author of 14 books, he coined the term Amen Corner to describe three consecutive treacherous, prayer-inducing holes on the back nine at Augusta National, home of the Masters...
Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, often called the “Darwin of the 20th century,” died on Feb. 3 at his retirement community in Bedford, Mass...