Agree. I suspect she, like my own elderly mother, refuses to see the danger, and change her circumstances. Life comes full circle. It’s hard for folks to accept, but those places, people, and things that were a threat to you at age five, return at age 75.
This reminds me of a situation in my parish church, back in the early 90s...
Our parish priest was mugged on the street outside the rectory in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and managed to fight off his attackers. A few weeks later, he was the victim of a push-in robbery in the Rectory itself, and again, he managed to fight off his attackers.
He gained quite a bit of notariety as a result of these attacks, and even wound up on the front page of the New York Post and New York Daily News. He was a great priest and a mild mannered guy, so nobody could figure out why all this was happening to Father Chester.
Well, the police caught one of the Rectory Robbers, and he told the police that it was not so much a robbery as a drug deal gone bad. A few days later, the police raided the Rectory and caught Father Chester, crack pipe in hand, as he was composing his Sunday sermon.
Needless to say, everybody in the congregation was shocked, except for the Warden and a couple of other old-timers, who said they saw this coming. Moral of the story is that sometimes it is bad luck, and sometimes the victim is doing something to bring this on himself.
An attempted kidnapping and a carjacking is a pretty weird pattern of crime.