"The past 12 years since he got sick — I wouldn't trade those 12 years for anything. Except, I wish the price to pay for them wasn't so high."
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Betsy Brooks remembers her father, Charles, as a "razor-sharp" former Marine.
The two had their share of arguments when she was a teenager, she says.
But that all changed late in her father's life, when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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