"Maybe if I make the bed. Maybe if I make the bed. Maybe if I make the bed then he will have a good day. Maybe he'll notice it on his way out and feel comforted, feel fortunate. Maybe he will think to himself, what a good wife I have. What a good wife to make up the bed so perfectly. So wonderfully. And then, then he'll think, what a good life I have. What a good life. Maybe he will notice the hospital corners and this will make him feel more at home. He likes things to be orderly. If I make the bed look so orderly, then maybe he will feel better here. Feel more at home. What a good life I have, he might say. What a good life."

MAKING THE BED

Three very different people at different ages and in different parts of the world decide that making up the bed might be the very thing that could change their lives for the better.

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1 male
2 female
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