Don't Let Alzheimer's Steal Mom

My mother passed away in 2011, but the last Mother's Day we truly spent together was several years before that. Alzheimer's took my mother, Amanda Ros, from us well before her death. She was born in Cuba and married my father, Enrique, at the age of 19. Her 84-year journey was vibrant, but with a degenerative disease like Alzheimer's, the memories of her cherished role as matriarch of our family were stolen from her in her final years.

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