Adrienne Ames, The Nurse (Long)

Name: Adrienne Ames

Age: 81

Hometown: Washington D.C.

No Longer Operates: An automobile.

"I can't drive anymore. My bossy nurse friends approached me and told me that they did not like to see me driving anymore. They thought that I needed to give it up and sell my car."

"How did you take that?"

"Well, it was like 'whoa.' 'Cause you know that always is for everybody that freedom and that independence and so forth...And so I thought about it, and I thought, 'you know what? I see what they mean, that I don't have the reactions that I used to.' So I said, 'okay, I'm going to do it. I'm going to give it up.' So I did it." 

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