When is the right time to break a promise?

When is the right time to break a promise?

Christopher Solomon’s parents promised one thing to one another: they would never put the other spouse into a nursing home. And yet, one of them did. A heartbreaking story about a long, happy marriage, leaving the reader with one question: Do promises actually ever make sense in a non-predictable life?

  Guest curated by Andrea Jansen

From Weekly Filet #Special, in October 2021.

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