Tick, Tock
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When you start losing your memories. When you start losing yourself. When you start becoming the spectator of your own life, what do you do? How are you supposed to restart when nothing's the same anymore?
The effects of Alzheimer's disease are irresistible. Nobody's at fault, really.
But that doesn't make it any easier. The slow, creeping fog that dims the world around you-faces, names, places-becomes more than just a nuisance. It becomes a thief. Stealing moments, stealing connections, stealing yourself. Your life turns to sand, slipping through your fingers no matter how much you try to hold on.
What can you do? Do you fight against it, hold onto every shred of memory with desperate hands? Or do you accept the inevitable, surrendering to the quiet unraveling of who you were, to become someone new-someone unrecognizable, even to yourself?
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