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'While you know what she forgets, you don’t know what she remembers'
I remember clearly a phone call to my mother a little over a decade ago, when she repeated the phrase,” several times in the course of a 15-minute conversation. I said to myself, “Her memory seems to be slipping…” She was then in her eighties.
Mom was always well known for her excellent memory; as Dean of the College, during the annual commencement exercises, she would be known for not reading names of graduates listed in the souvenir program, but instead looking at each graduate waiting at the foot of the stage, and calling out their names without fail. One student publication even wrote an article about “Our Dean and her wonderful memory.
It now takes a long time for her to finish a meal, sitting at the table for hours. The meticulous details she used to keep recording and compiling – bank statements, tax receipts, etc. – she no longer minds with. Her conversations are intermittent, and usually you have to initiate them, trying to ask her questions or jogging her memory. Sometimes she just looks blankly if you ask her something.
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