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Meals On Wheels delivers warm meals to home-bound seniors 65 years old and older. And there's not many older than Charles Middleton, but he's not receiving the meals, he's the one dropping them off! Smiling by his side each trip is his loving 90-year-old wife, Mary, whose Alzheimer's robbed her yesterdays, but not her todays.
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January 9, 2011
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Week of December 26 - January 2, 2011
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