Loved itSo, I got to read Still Alice and I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would.
Still Alice (2007)
Others: Positive Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.
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