The Last Lucid Moment on Maple Street
For eleven years, Dorothy Ainsworth bathed her husband, tied his shoes, and answered the same question — "Do I know you?" — sometimes forty times...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Revelation 21:1-4.
For eleven years, Dorothy Ainsworth bathed her husband, tied his shoes, and answered the same question — "Do I know you?" — sometimes forty times a day. Harold had been a high school history teacher in Cedar Rapids who could once recite every president in order. Alzheimer's stole the presidents first, then the names of their three children, and finally Dorothy herself.…
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