LOVE UNFORGOTTEN
Robert McQuilkin used to be the president of Columbia Bible College and Seminary in South Carolina. Recently, he retired in order to care for his wife, Muriel, a once-sharp woman now lost in the fog of Alzeimer’s disease. The truly touching part of this story lies in what is left of Muriel. It is not her mind, she no longer speaks in complete sentences and sometimes says, “NO,” when she means “YES.” It is not her vanity; she often refuses to bathe. It is not her sense of social graces; at the grocery store she frequently dashes off with other people’s carts. The disease has stripped her like a banana, peeling away the bright coverings until only the meat of her personality remains. And what is left? Love. The one sentence she can still put together, correctly and frequently, is, “I love you.” Just before Dr. McQuilkin retired, she developed the habit of slipping out of the house and walking to…
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