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Shadow Memory
Ever since his father was diagnosed with dementia, Dean has watched the mental processor in the former software engineer's brain degrade.
Now, Dean has accepted his love for his once-estranged father. But as the illness progresses, Dean struggles to balance his affection for his father against his own fears of one day ending up like him, and leaving his own lover, Taylor, with a shadow of himself...
NOTE: This story was previously published as Shadow Memory by Jennifer Brooks with the ISBN: 978-1-61937-530-7. This reissued version of the story has been revised and reedited.
Now, Dean has accepted his love for his once-estranged father. But as the illness progresses, Dean struggles to balance his affection for his father against his own fears of one day ending up like him, and leaving his own lover, Taylor, with a shadow of himself...
NOTE: This story was previously published as Shadow Memory by Jennifer Brooks with the ISBN: 978-1-61937-530-7. This reissued version of the story has been revised and reedited.
- GenresContemporary
20 pages, ebook
First published January 10, 2013
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February 10, 2013
This short is both sweet and supremely sad. It is a beautiful story of a man who has watched the progression that dementia has made in his father's life. As Dean has lunch with is father who is shockingly aware as their meeting begins and gradually loses himself to his mind, he reflects on his life - the good and the bad - with his father. Dean also fears the same thing happening to him someday and reflects on how that would effect his partner, Taylor. I hope somewhere in the future Dean and Taylor's love story will be written.
This is a very reflective, somber story, but it has become near and dear to my heart. As a person who has watched a family member succumb to Alzheimer's (which is not the same thing as frontotemporal dementia, but close), this story has affected me as more than just a reader.
Shadow Memory is not a HEA story, but it's precious. This is not a story that I would have normally picked up to read. I happened to win this copy, but I'm so glad that I've had the chance to read this.
This is a very reflective, somber story, but it has become near and dear to my heart. As a person who has watched a family member succumb to Alzheimer's (which is not the same thing as frontotemporal dementia, but close), this story has affected me as more than just a reader.
Shadow Memory is not a HEA story, but it's precious. This is not a story that I would have normally picked up to read. I happened to win this copy, but I'm so glad that I've had the chance to read this.
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August 11, 2013A bittersweet tale that is more the story of a father/son relationship that of two lovers, even if Dean and Taylor are indeed lovers, partners and everything for each other.
Dean’s father has dementia, and while having lunch with him, Dean not only reconsiders his relationship with his father, but tries to imagine what will happen to his own relationship with Taylor if the same thing happening to his father will affect also him in the future. Dean’s father’s dementia moreover brings him back in the past, and Dean can, unwillingly, reliving some epic moments that when he was only a teenager he was not able to understand. At the end of the lunch, Dean is able to appreciate how lucky he is to have Taylor in his life and how important it’s to preserve that love, forever and ever.
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Dean’s father has dementia, and while having lunch with him, Dean not only reconsiders his relationship with his father, but tries to imagine what will happen to his own relationship with Taylor if the same thing happening to his father will affect also him in the future. Dean’s father’s dementia moreover brings him back in the past, and Dean can, unwillingly, reliving some epic moments that when he was only a teenager he was not able to understand. At the end of the lunch, Dean is able to appreciate how lucky he is to have Taylor in his life and how important it’s to preserve that love, forever and ever.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZV1KYE/?...
February 21, 2015
A short, poignant story really about Dean coming to terms that in later life he may develop dementia and the effect it will have on his family, especially Taylor his husband. 3.5*
Dean has been seeing his father regularly as slips further into dementia and this triggers all sorts of worries for the future as well as recollections of the past - worries of the burden he could become, recollections of how he and Taylor developed from friends tolovers, how his family accept them but Taylor's do not.
This leads to him starts to articulate his feelings into a file so that if he does slip into dementia as his father, his memories are there for Taylor to know.
Dean has been seeing his father regularly as slips further into dementia and this triggers all sorts of worries for the future as well as recollections of the past - worries of the burden he could become, recollections of how he and Taylor developed from friends tolovers, how his family accept them but Taylor's do not.
This leads to him starts to articulate his feelings into a file so that if he does slip into dementia as his father, his memories are there for Taylor to know.
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