Pierre

May

26

A StraNge CoUple!

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For 5 months, I’ve witnessed a strange scene in front of my door: an old woman shouting at her husband who does not seem to mind and who repeats the same sentences: I knew there was something going on but…Today, the old woman came to me when I was doing some cleaning to my garden. I knew she would do it someday and I was glad she came today. The old woman told me: “You know I am shouting at him and it must be strange to you but he has Alzheimer’s disease”. Her voice was so different, it was tender, nice and a bit shy. She stood there and told me a bit of her story. She is 74 years old and he is 77. She told me why he keeps repeating stories about his time during the war between France and Algeria, why she makes him do some silly work in the garden and kept a perpetual fight between them. “What a strange thing, Alzheimer’s disease” she said. She was mentally tired and of course she was a bit sad. We kept talking about other, more casual, things after.

Anyways, now I know a bit more about them.

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