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From Holding Tight to Letting Go

From Holding Tight to Letting Go

Susan Torricellas

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Balboa Press
Año de edición:
2020
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781982242466
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The Poetry book reflects the six years of marriage and Love between husband and wife the joy, happiness and sorrow at the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease and 3 years of symptoms, episodes and continuing support and love, and subsequent nursing home confinement for Susan’s husband Bob and his death and her grief afterwards.

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