A heart-wrenching twist to the story is that the wife of the married couple is now very ill with multiple sclerosis, but now the nurse living in her home is caring for her, just as she had cared for the nurse. This is the divine gift of mystical providence and radical interdependence. The woman of the married couple who opened their home died shortly after the original release of this book. And yes, the formerly homeless mom was her nurse as she died.