My neighbour, 82, would give everything for just a week with her parents. What she longed to tell them surprised me | Yumi Stynes

I assumed Bianca wanted to regress to the role of little girl. But she had a story to share with them about a life well lived

My elderly neighbour said something to me that has haunted me for the past two years.

She said, I am old. I could die soon. When? Two or three years? Even so, I would give up two years of my life to spend one afternoon with my mum and dad."