True story. At the trust meeting, my daughter said: “She has no say.” I reached into my bag and…

hard and died too young.

He became an engineer.

I became a teacher.

We both, in our quiet ways, became people who kept their word.

When his doctors told us about the Lewy body dementia, we were sitting in a beige office on a Tuesday afternoon, and Gerald asked three clarifying questions and thanked the neurologist for his time.

That was Gerald.

He thanked continue reading …