How Can We Make Judaism Accessible to Those Affected By Dementia?
My Grandma Norma, who died seven years ago today, was one of my favorite people in the world. I think of her as my third parent. She moved from L.A. to Dallas, where my family was living, a week after I was born. She wanted to watch me grow up, and, weirdly enough, she died a month before my eighteenth birthday. She was such a kind person, and always super glamorous. She worked at Neiman Marcus so she always had the best clothes, and since she got a blow-out every week, she didn’t know how to style her own hair.
Things began to change when I was nine. She started getting lost driving home from work. She frequently forgot where she parked her car, which inspired a satirical book I wrote in second grade entitled “How to Get Lost With My Grandmother.”
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