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Why forgetting can feel like grace and betrayal

My husband has Alzheimer's and there are moments when I'm grateful he doesn't remember the worst parts of our marriage and then I feel like a monster.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Memory loss can offer unexpected mercies that we're afraid to acknowledge, let alone appreciate.

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