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The day before Gene is to return to Nebraska, the beloved brothers pause on Dale's beach.



When Gene soaked him with a water pistol, Dale upped the ante with the garden hose.



Weakened by his spreading cancer, exhausted by the previous days' activities, Dale slept almost all day Sunday,<br/>the last day of the full family's reunion. He made just a brief appearance in the livingroom, where he napped.



While their Dad sleeps nearby, Renée and Nicolle sort through the ever-growing piles of bills and papers on the dining room table.



Gene and Nicolle move much of the furniture out from around a generally unaware Dale. Having finally sold his home<br/>in September, Dale was too sick to attend to the move. He had to be out by the end of October.



Nicolle and Bonnie help Dale, who was disoriented and agitated as they attempted to go<br/>on an ice cream outing in mid-September. It took an hour to actually get in the car.



Nestled in his 1936 Ford, Dale is surrounded by the love of his family during a mid-September ice cream outing.



When Dale's health began to its rapid descent toward death, his family hung Tibetan<br/>prayer flags from the back deck, in a place where he could see them from his bed.



Dale began withdrawing in the last two months of his life, yet his family sat by him, sharing their mutual love.



Dale sleeps where he fell, while a disconsolate Nicolle ponders the dilemma of caring for a dying father who has grown angry, distant and confused.



René tenderly contemplates her dying father.



Nicolle gently massages Dale's feet, soothing him as the family dresses him for the move to the nursing home.


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