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	The Beginning of Good-bye

BobbyDelray

4-2-2008 11:23 AM

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BobbyDelray says:

This blog reveals the personal travails of an Alzheimer's caregiver and her mother.

If you go back in time and read the posts you will be moved by the heartfelt writing. so real, so personal.

For those of us walking down the same path, the writing on this blog is both educational and heart wrenching.

For me it has done two important things, it has let me know what I am facing and that I am not alone.

This writing has often brought tears to my eyes but never more then at this moment.

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