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Still Alice really slayed me. I was crying and crying and this is not good when you are fasting.
The story is about a smart language expert who teaches at Colombia University and married to a smart scientist. She has three children, the eldest, a glam career woman, one of those she is very close with, the middle child is her only son who is a doctor and her youngest daughter is an aspring actress who lives in LA and doesn't want to go to colleage despite Alice's constant sound advice. They have a friction between them. But when she is diagnosed with Alzheimers (an early onset type that is hereditary) it is the youngest who leaves her budding career (she just got a good deal with a powerful agency) to take care of her mom when others are too busy with their own careers, children etc. As much as it was heartbearking to see this intelligent, lively woman to fade away bit by bit, the thing that got me most was how her daughter stepped up and came to take care of her. It shouldn't have been easy but she did it. I loved that.
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