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Alice is a fifty year old woman who is happily married to John who is a scientist and has three children together named Lydia, Tom and Anna. Lydia is the youngest daughter Lydia is a struggling actress who has rejected college and move to the West coast with some roommates Malcolm and Doug. She is also the one who stands by her mother, providing support, and wanting to maximize Alice’s independence and decision-making. Tom the middle child is currently in medical school and Anna the eldest child is wrapped up in her career. Alice is a professor at Harvard and lives in Cambridge. Alice is invited to Stanford’s follow series speaker’s conference. Alice goes on a visit to Los Angeles to visit her youngest daughter Lydia. All of a sudden Alices life take a turn for the worst. She visits plenty of doctors to try in figure out what …show more content…
She simply could not find the word. Alice had a loose sense for what she wanted to say, but the words itself eluded her. Gone. She did not the first letter or what the word sounded like or how many syllables it had. It was not on the tip of her tongue.
Another example is when Alice went to go visit her youngest daughter Lydia and told her that her flight was coming in at eight but when she showed up early at five Alice argued with her daughter that she had already told her that her flight was at five. Lydia proved her mom wrong by telling her she had wrote the time down when she told her when her flight was going to land. Also when Lydia tells her mom her roommates names a few minutes later Alice ask her daughter again what are her roommate’s names and she ask Lydia again how she met Malcolm and

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