Valentine’s and Alzheimer’s
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Valentine’s and Alzheimer’s

Posted: Tuesday Feb 13, 2024

“I used to picture that he would marry me”: A love letter to Brian Turner

In the morning, the flax bowed with snow. The firs across the road with their branches almost supplicating. Outside the air has a muted, hazed feeling, as if it is still snowing but invisibly. The seven sheep sitting on the white, chewing, or staring off into the willows. The cows under the far pines – I surmise.

And at the table with Brian, snow encircling the horizon, we talk about “that bastard Alzheimer’s”.

He’d written....

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