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Part 1: My dad has been trying to escape his whole life

by Mike Higdon on December 13, 2021 in Words

A few days after Thanksgiving, my dad ran away from my niece’s home where he was staying after running away from his home in Kentucky. He wandered the streets for a few hours until my niece found him and tried to take him home. Unfortunately, his dementia has progressed to include “behavioral disturbances,” a very clinical way to name uncontrollable… Read more →

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