Alzheimer's memoir: Daughter and Mother, excerpt from the book 'When It's All said and Done'

After Donnie's death, Mom never stopped grieving. She missed her sister with a painful longing. As a result, and perhaps in an effort to fill her desperate void, she began to view me less as a daughter and more as a friend. As time progressed, she shared more and more intimate details of her life with me.

All that Donnie had been to her, I now was. How thoroughly cherished were my last years with her. I had become her sisterhood fortress.

Barbie

 (Excerpt from our book 'When It's All Said and Done')