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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet I was told many stories of what can only be called “transcendent love” as adult children and family members caring for someone with Alzheimer’s experienced what can only be called grace. They grieve and they care for someone and they grieve after that person is gone. The disease inspires quite naturally feelings of rage and anger, despair and fear for the person with the disease and the same feelings haunt family members. Caregivers in essence watch their loved on die twice, once as they gradually lose cognitive abilities and again as the disease ends their life. Alzheimer’s is a difficult, hard, turmoil-inducing illness that pulls into its sphere not only those afflicted with it but those caring for them as well. In the four years I spent researching the novel, time and again I was deeply moved and impressed by families and individuals standing as witness to the enduring dignity of those they cared for. My novel The Wide Circumference of Love is a love story set against the backdrop of Alzheimer’s disease. Click here to WATCH Maria Shriver with me, discussing The Wide Circumference of Love, and Alzheimer’s in the African American community. I was very gratified to have a conversation about my bestselling novel and my research with Maria Shriver, who has initiated a Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement. ![]()
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