Posted on 06/07/2004 1:21:06 AM PDT by kattracks
June 7, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — Patti Davis, who feuded with her parents for decades, says she made peace with her father just before Alzheimer's disease struck almost 10 years ago. Davis recalls walking along the ocean with her father when the disease was just beginning."I would walk beside him along the beach, after he had already begun slipping into the shadows of Alzheimer's," writes Davis, in this week's edition of Newsweek.
"He looked up at a flock of seagulls soaring overhead and his eyes followed them, shining with something I couldn't decipher, but which I interpreted as longing," writes Davis. "I returned in time to say goodbye to my father, to witness his steady withdrawal from this world."
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