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Why we continue caring when the person is no longer there

My grandmother raised me but now has dementia and doesn't remember me and I visit anyway but wonder if I'm doing it for her or just my own guilt.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love can persist even when its object has fundamentally changed or disappeared.

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