2019-03-14
23 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Dementia can alter someone's personality and change how they interact with the world, but sometimes it can also lead to moments of profound connection.
Jenny McPhee writes about one of those moments in her piece refreshing a mother's memory with love and stories.
Its read by Zoe Saldana.
Shes starred in Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy and you can see her in April in missing link.
Zoe is also the founder of Bsay, a new media platform aiming to represent communities that have been left out of mainstream conversations.
My mother is slowly losing her mind.
This fact, as well as all the tragic repercussions along the way, takes up a large chunk of my chats with my four sisters and with many of my friends who are going through similar issues with their parents.
Recently, my mother's geriatric specialist told me there was a significant rise in dementia in those 60 and older.
My mother is 81, particularly among women, and no one really knows why.
I later joked to one of my sisters that with women having to endure so much injustice throughout their lives, it was perhaps a relief to forget it all.
But that's just me being cynical.
This story is not cynical.
I have a large family and at Thanksgiving we were 35, sitting around several tables in my mother's dining room, and that didn't even include us all.