California elders deserve better than funding hurdles, shuttered programs

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California elders deserve better than funding hurdles, shuttered programs

When my dad was young, he took off his own braces with pliers in the garage after his parents ran out of money to take him to the orthodontist. He answered the door for debt collectors, faking as if his parents weren’t home to avoid confrontations. He knew economic precarity in his tiny bones. It’s no wonder, really, he became a bankruptcy lawyer when he grew up. More on the nose than any novelist could write it, my dad’s “hero’s journey” was la…