FEATURE
SEnine
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What’s happening?
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Where am I?
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A story of Dementia
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Night
disease affected my
character.
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I was no mas-
ter planner, simply
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night had seemed
fitful and long, my a mum wandering
mind conscious and going in through life with
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circles of never ending thought, an old fashioned
mostly worry, but I am not sure servile upbringing,
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about what. able to do things if
I have always been a well or- asked and watching
ganised person, not educated my children make
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but interested in the world and their way through
with a love of things historical. life, wanting des-
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I grew up in perately to help but never quite reported on the TV. I wonder if
the aftermath knowing how. all the deprivation and suffering
tiev
My sentences
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of World War of English families who lost so
lemen
contain lots
I. World War II Morning much in World War II was worth le
x
ey K
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of ‘thingies’
meant a seven it. I watch the pictures painted olia: A
ot
and phrases to
year separa-
Morning
comes on the TV of a country out of
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tion from my and I control and becoming more
phot
hide the fact
husband who go into my routine which has disorganised and murderous by
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was away with served me well over the years the day.
the army in for- and now I desperately cling to. I enjoy a read of SEnine as it
remember
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eign lands. Then My mind starts to play strange is mainly good news and of local
names. upon his return tricks. My short term memories interest.
I faced years of seem to link in strange ways.
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caring for young children and a I forget names. My sentences Day
husband struggling to come to contain lots of ‘thingies’ and
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terms with a different life out of phrases to hide the fact that I
the army. cannot remember names. My
children visit me as
much as they can and
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I have been shaped as a I am forever anxious that I I usually see one of them or
survivor. have forgotten to do something their children, umm, that’s my
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we were about to enjoy our have missed a payment which I still feel a growing loneliness
retirement years and the need will get me in trouble. and sense of frustration as eve-
to provide what support I could I sit in my room and watch rything seems more and more
to a son and his wife with a the television and worry about fragmented.
young family who himself was the terrible state of the world My growing fearfulness as
being destroyed by a terrible and the never ending bad news memories get more confused
Help keep Eltham tidy! Put your litter in bins.
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