Up at Catholic Writers Guild today, Larry Peterson is stealing the show with his beautiful essay on his first Christmas with Alzheimer’s under the tree:
The past ten years of her life seem to have literally vanished from her brain. She does not remember us getting married. (We were both widowed and married eight years ago. She has no clue.) So she asks me if we are really married. I show her our marriage license and pictures from our wedding. She is shocked. “I can’t believe it, ” she says. We really ARE married.”
Now, every night I say to her, “Okay, we can sleep together tonight. It’s not a sin.” She always laughs at that.
Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.
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