This is a brilliant idea and a perfect match. These lonely seniors in a nursing home are helping immigrants learn English. - - Donna Poisl
By DIANNE SOLÍS / The Dallas Morning News
PLEASANT GROVE – In the sinking violet light of a Saturday afternoon, Jessica Vazquez takes the hand of Annie Taylor, whose sepia skin is as delicate as tissue paper.
Vazquez's little girls take position at Taylor's bed. They're barely past their fifth and ninth spring. Taylor is in her 103rd winter.
"I want to keep your children," Taylor chirps. The girls, Lesley and Allyn, giggle.
"Is it OK we are here?" Vazquez asks. "You want to sleep?"
"Oh, no!" comes the response.
So begins an unconventional lesson in English acquisition.
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