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Amber
Once Aunt Kasey started speaking, everyone listened intently.
“That day, I had gone to the market. The park is right next to it. When I saw Harrison sitting alone on a bench, I got worried. Last I heard, he’d been diagnosed with dementia, and his family didn’t even let him go outside alone. At first, he didn’t recognize me. So of course, he refused when I offered to take him home. There was a café nearby. I brought him there and waited with him over some tea until his family could pick him up. At one point, he mistook me for his late wife and held my hand. He teared up from joy. I didn’t have the heart to correct him. I just sat there and listened… as if I were his wife.”
Her words made my eyes sting. My own grandfather was sick too, though thankfully not as far along.
Mr. Be
