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“Her ability to use language, that thing that most separates humans from animals, was leaving her, and she was feeling less and less human as it departed. She's said a tearful good-bye to okay some ...”
“It was October in Pennsylvania and on the first morning the ground was frosted. As I walked to breakfast, some guy yelled out, Thirteen inches in the Poconos.Is that I porn film? I asked.”
“Accepting the fact that she did indeed have Alzheimer's, that she could only bank on two unacceptably effective drugs available to treat it, and that she couldn't trade any of this in for some othe...”
“She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the f...”