Husband with Alzheimer's Proposed Again to His Wife of 38 Years
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Husband with Alzheimer's Proposed Again to His Wife of 38 Years
Michael Joyce's memory and some of his speech have been snatched by Alzheimer's. The disease is so advanced that he forgot he was married to his wife of 38 years. But he is in love with her, and he is also an honorable man, so he proposed to her on a recent morning. She said yes.
"You don't say, 'Oh, we're already married,' " Linda Joyce, 64, told the New Zealand ...
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