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He sat with his wife’s photo, waiting for a son who had already boarded without him

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favorite stories, the specific way I hummed when I was nervous, and the fact that my middle name, May, was chosen after his mother, not my mom’s.

He never forgot me. Even when Alzheimer’s began eroding his sense of time and place, he held on to the essence of who I was. Even when he mixed up names and dates, somehow, he still looked at me like I was continue reading …

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