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Caught Between Young Kids and a Parent with Alzheimer’s, I Found a Lifeline on the Playground
By Meg Ounsworth Steere — 2019
My mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decline were a painful and lonely journey, one that coincided with an otherwise unbearably hectic time. My two children were still in diapers.
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