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"Well, hello, there." Anita. I can't stand Anita, with her nasally voice she never uses for anything valuable. Once, she wouldn't shut up about her lost keys.
"If I ever get that way, put me out to pasture." Nanna joked when I was younger. Long before her Alzheimer's. But after her breast cancer. "I would rather lose my body than my mind," she had said, adjusting her wig.
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Alzheimer's will take anyone. It doesn't care who you are, or what you deserve.
Over an awkward dinner, Claire reflects on her Nanna's downward spiral. Through a mouthful of mushy turkey and brie, she is forced to consider life without her Nanna for the first time. It is only through small miracles -- her Nanna's memory flares, her humor sparks -- that Claire is able to navigate through this next phase of her Nanna's life.