My mother's life captured every stage of living. She grew up during the Depression, and valued everything life had to offer. She was lucky to receive a good education, worked for caring employers, met the man of her dreams, got married, had one child and two grandsons. My parents retired to Florida, a dream they had their entire lives, and everything was going smoothly until my father passed away. It was then that the disease began to slowly eat away at her mind. This is my heart breaking memory of my experience with Alzheimer's.