Adopt a Grandfriend
Meet Dot
Get to know Dot before you make the commitment of a lifetime (or at least a monthly subscription).
"Dot" Dorothy Kowalski
84 years old
📍 Sunny Pines Nursing Home, Chicago, IL
Monthly sponsorship
$35/month
📋 About Dot
Dot spent 40 years as a school librarian and has read every book in Sunny Pines twice. She keeps a running list of who owes her at gin rummy and the debt is astronomical.
Dot's Story
The following is a transcript of Dot telling their story in their own words.
“Oh, the library... I spent forty years shelving books and shushing children and I loved every minute of it. Now where was I... oh yes, you take two cups of flour and a half stick of butter — wait, that's my nana's cobbler recipe, not the Dewey Decimal System. Anyway, one time a man came in looking for 'Charlotte Brontë' and I said sir, she doesn't live here, this is a library... and then I realized he meant the book. Or did he? I never did find out. He left very quickly. I think about him every Tuesday.”
— Dot, 84 years old
💬 What Dot Says About Having a Sponsor
“I've been telling everyone here that I have a sponsor. Mrs. Jenkins tried to get one too but I told her the form was very complicated. It's not. I just wanted to be special.”
🧡 Adopt Dot
⚠️ Liability Agreement & Assumption of Risk
By adopting Dot, you acknowledge and accept full personal liability for any and all damages, disruptions, or consequences that Dot may bring about to their environment as a result of this adoption. This includes, but is not limited to:
- • Property damage from competitive board game incidents
- • Emotional distress caused to other residents via superior bingo performance
- • Unsanctioned facility redecorating or furniture rearrangement
- • Excessive storytelling leading to missed meal times
- • Thermostat-related conflicts
- • Any and all feuds, rivalries, or "incidents" that Dot may instigate
- • Mysterious disappearance of communal pudding cups
Adopt-A-Grandfriend, its affiliates, partners, and the nursing facility assume absolutely no responsibility for the actions, opinions, competitive behavior, or general shenanigans of adopted grandfriends. You adopt at your own risk.
⚠️ Important Notice: Adopt-A-Grandfriend is a sponsorship program. By participating, you acknowledge full liability for any and all damages your adopted grandfriend may bring about to their environment. This includes, without limitation, interpersonal disputes, competitive game-related incidents, unauthorized craft projects, and strongly worded opinions about the weather. We love our grandfriends, but we cannot be held responsible for them.