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Patti Davis
American
Celebrity
Born:
Oct 21
,
1952
Father
Long
Me
People
Think
You
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It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
Patti Davis
Life
Strength
You
Grief
Way
Through
Takes
Make
Grab
Hold
Your
Forward
Pull
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
Life
Love
Health
You
Sickness
Everything
Kicks
Enter
One Thing
Fine
Someone
Part
Does
Smooth
Tested
Going
Your
Show
Lives
Thing
Resilience
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
There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.
Patti Davis
You
Memories
Walk
Run
Point
Toward
Process
Grieving
Straight
Them
Away
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
Myself
Veteran
Conspiracy
Oswald
Harvey
Would
Pretty
Obsessed
Call
Lee
Hit
Ordered
Much
Really
Theorist
Theory
Who
Whole
Peaked
Thing
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
The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.
Patti Davis
Me
Memories
Matter
Long
Before
Stayed
Vivid
Could
He
Him
Hear
Repeated
Forever
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
Losing
Father
Awareness
Think
Claiming
More
More And More
Him
Because
Alzheimer
Very
Quiet
Person
Stages
Growing
Aware
Why
Hardest
Early
Started
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
Hope
Broken
Vision
Christopher
Christopher Reeve
Everything
Would
Would-Be
Able
Lifetime
He
Over
Understood
Reeve
His
Walking
Begins
Again
Body
Belief
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
You
People
Losing
Long
Gone
Every
Think
Other
About
Through
Feels
Know
Particularly
Person
Disease
Any
Going
Loved
Loved One
Unique
Thing
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
Parents
Uncle
Other
Saw
About
Never
Had
Couple
Talked
Understood
Era
Were
Aunt
Up
Friends
Times
Just
Where
Grew
Holidays
Them
Then
Your
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
Me
Old
Father
Too Much
Feeling
Too
Stately
Intrude
About
Take
He
Steps
Like
Cathedral
Reverence
His
Being
Want
Whisper
Much
Now
Soft
The memories that I have are mostly at our old ranch, out in Agoura. We used to go out there every Saturday. I can smell the oak trees. I can see it so clearly.
Patti Davis
Memories
Old
Smell
Every
Trees
Our
Ranch
Oak
Out
See
Clearly
Mostly
Go
Used
Saturday
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
Thoughts
People
Walk
Father
Own
Move On
Think
Back
Everywhere
High
Lies
About
Never
He
Hill
Him
Stone
Move
Pause
Body
Tomb
Lives
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
Birthday
Father
Think
Mark
Possibilities
Would
Would-Be
Hopes
He
Like
Alzheimer
Still
Were
His
Years
Celebrations
Often
Away
Here
Imagine
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