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To: LindyBill who wrote (227983)	11/14/2007 12:30:04 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) of 793897

Anyone who has worked with, lived with, or even just known Alzheimer's victims, would find this a touching, rather than embarrassing story. Alzheimer's destroys people; it robs them of their past, of their memories, of their ability to relate. Any kind of comfort that can quiet and reassure them is welcome. I just finished reading John Bayley's second book on his wife's (novelist Iris Murdock) struggle with Alzheimer's and what he went through as primary caregiver. It was brutally honest about the realities and painful to read at times, but throughout, you sensed the tremendous strength and love underneath it all. Rather than an embarrassment, it's an insight into Sandra Day O'Conner's intelligence and compassion that she can unselfishly rejoice when her husband finds some happiness in what is usually a terribly lonely and frightening illness. Her husband is no longer the person she married and lived with for so many years in that he can't relate as he once did, but she honors who he was and their marriage with her understanding. Anyone who attempts to turn this into some kind of joke embarrasses only himself.

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