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    • CommentAuthorCharlotte
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2014
     
    This paragraph was near the end of the essay. Says it all of the emotional losses of this disease.

    "People who love each other — husbands and wives, parents and children, friends — cross borders throughout their relationships. If they are lucky, the borders are permeable and either person can cross back. For dementia sufferers the borders are not permeable. The crossings are one-way only. So each week I stand at another border waving goodbye to someone I love, and she doesn’t know I am waving goodbye. She just smiles back her enormous smile from the foreign country where she now lives — and says thank you."

    http://magazine.nd.edu/news/42845/
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    That was touching. Thanks, Charlotte.
    • CommentAuthormary22033
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2014
     
    Very well written. Thanks for sharing, Charlotte :)
    • CommentAuthorAmber
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2014
     
    Very true. Thank you for sharing this with us.
    • CommentAuthorJazzy
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2014
     
    Thank you. Beautiful and so true, Charlotte.
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      CommentAuthorm-mman*
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2014
     
    OMG - It so well says what I/we went through!
    I will be sharing and using it as a teaching tool for those who are on the outside of this disease.

    However I can only send it to them as I certainly will never be able to read it aloud without tears.
    Jim