Mavis had Alzheimer's ten years now. She lived in a nursing home. Her husband of 54 years visited her everyday. Their children and grandchildren visited on weekends. Mavis didn't recognize her husband Martin anymore, she saw him as no more than a caretaker, forcing pills upon her, telling her what to do as if she were a little girl. Mavis saw herself as a young woman of twenty. So it was only natural that when Albert came to the home as a patient a few weeks ago, she fell head over heels in love with him. Mavis and Albert spent much time together sitting at a table in the lunch room, talking and dancing, singing together as if they were dating. Martin was strangely happy that Mavis had perked up these past few weeks. He knew Albert was the reason. Albert was so like Martin in many ways, it was understandable that Mavis would fall for him Martin was not jealous of their relationship, but happy that his beloved wife was once again content, more the woman he fell in love with all those years ago. 2008-02-28T19:43:23Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/22754 <p>I like this, reminds me of The Notebook. My grandfather has a very very early stage of alzheimers, but he isn&#8217;t related to me by blood since my grandmother remarried. It reminded me of that too.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/22754?basename=44382 2008-02-28T19:43:23Z Blusparrow http://ficlets.com/authors/blusparrow <p>Albert is an elderly alzheimers patient as well. but your comments were very funny ThX.<br />LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/22754?basename=44372 2008-02-28T18:28:04Z SKermitgorf http://ficlets.com/authors/kermitgorf <p>Kind of cute, a confused love affair. But what is Albert all about? Actually a young man or another resident? Odd person with a fetish for the memory impaired or just being nice to the old lady? So many questions! But lovely little story of true, selfless love.<br />LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/22754?basename=44359 2008-02-28T17:27:00Z THX 0477 http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477 <p>=/ what a gentleman Martin is, I would be devastated. Well witten.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/22754?basename=44358 2008-02-28T16:32:26Z Lovely http://ficlets.com/authors/cigarettesandpapercups <p>so sad. very common too. i hate going into those alzheimer&#8217;s homes though, everyone thinks i&#8217;m their daughter or their sister that&#8217;s been dead for years. its kind of eerie.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/22754?basename=44326 2008-02-28T05:26:41Z Nouvelle Bardot http://ficlets.com/authors/user_bardot