To the most beautiful and the most intelligent woman I have known in my entire life. 

Thank you.

Happy birthday!

Welcome, Dr. Alice Howland.

I hope to convince you that by observing these baby steps into the...into...

Alice, where the hell were you? 

I went for a run.

Well, I hope you enjoyed that because you completely _____1______.

I need to talk to you. I've got something wrong with me.

What's going on? 

Oh, boy...

You guys are gonna breakup? 

No.

I have Alzheimer's disease. Early onset. 

Oh, my God.

I can see the words ______2_______ and I can't reach them and I don't know who I am.

And I don't know what I'm gonna loose next.

_____3_______.

I'd like to so you go to college.

You can't use your situation to just get me to do everything.

Why can't I?!

Because it's not fair! 

I don't have to be fair! I'm your mother.

I hate this is happening to me.

But we have to keep the important things in our lives going.

Merry Christmas! 

We have to try or we're going to go crazy.

This might be the last year that I'm myself.

Please don't say that.

I am not suffering. I am struggling. Struggling to be a part of things, to stay connected. to who I once was.

So "live in the moment" I tell myself. It's really all I can do. Live in the moment.