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The Long Goodbye

Keri’s mum battled Alzheimer’s and left a legacy of love

Keri Kitay, 40, Sydney, NSW

As Mum’s eyes roamed the car park in vain, I frowned.

‘I don’t know where I parked,’ my mum, Terry, then 54, said, beside herself.

‘How can you have forgotten where the car is?’ I said impatiently. ‘We come here all the time.’ As panic took hold, Mum began to cry.

We’d been shopping at the Chatswood Chase centre so many times, I just didn’t understand why Mum was so panicky. Usually so social and confident, lately

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