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You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me."
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women
early-onset-alzheimer-s
mother-daughter
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She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they ha..
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life
inspirational
butterflies
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just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.
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death
truth
inspirational
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Lisa Genova |
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Bach, Chopin, Schumann, these composers have mastered the art of listening. Richard hears Debussy's "Clair de lune," and every cell in his body has a broken heart and bare feet dancing in the moonlight. Playing Brahms is communing with God."
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