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The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

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Patti Davis
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 21
Actor
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LA
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Patricia Ann Davis
Patricia Ann Reagan
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The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.
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I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.
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That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
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Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
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It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
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Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.
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I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling.
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You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.
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[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?
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I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
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It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.
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The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.
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My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.
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I don't think it's an accident who our parents are I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
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I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.
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I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.
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People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.
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The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.
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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
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Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.
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