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Patti Davis

American Celebrity

Born: Oct 21, 1952

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It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested. Patti Davis

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched. Patti Davis

You Earth Touched How Leave Legacy Hearts Your Many

I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling. Patti Davis

You Losing Awareness Think See Struggling Particularly Knows Because Alzheimer Person Stages Them Aware Hardest Earlier

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood. Patti Davis

Me Heart Eyes Words Try Father Past Later Would Hoping He Reach Look Alzheimer Understood His Heard Decades Apology

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable. Patti Davis

Life You People Vision Thought My Life OK Backup Tell Would Would-Be Writer Foolishness Just Wanted Really Should Act Career

No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more. Patti Davis

Me Father Sit Took Saw Clamor Shadows Something More Allow No-One Him His Decades Reserve Ever Nearly Four

I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald. Patti Davis

Callista Gingrich has, I suspect, given Newt's advisers a giant headache. She's a constant presence at her husband's side - and a constant reminder of his acknowledged infidelity. Newt cheated on his second wife with Callista, a woman 23 years his junior. Patti Davis

Woman Wife Husband Side Giant Constant Gingrich Given Cheated Headache Reminder She Adviser His Years Junior Infidelity Suspect Acknowledged Newt Her Presence Second

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet. Patti Davis

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. Patti Davis

Rivalry Had Odd America Sibling

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body. Patti Davis

I was such a punk. Patti Davis

Punk

I needed to run away in order to come home. Patti Davis

Home Run Come Order Away Needed

It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal. Patti Davis

Book Easier Deal Lot Get Used

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person. Patti Davis

Confidence People Father Own Think Imitate Imitated Would Find Never He Him Because His Person Anybody Want Confusing Who

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself. Patti Davis

You Yourself Parents Find Order Separate Your

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique. Patti Davis

I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple. Patti Davis

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now. Patti Davis

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying. Patti Davis

Life Death You Nothing Think About More Than Dying Teaches

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere. Patti Davis

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations? Patti Davis

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