Make Your Selection: I'll Be Seeing You by Elizabeth Berg

Elizabeth Berg's father was an Army veteran who was a tough man in every way but one: He showed a great deal of love and tenderness to his wife. Berg describes her parents' marriage as a romance that lasted for nearly seventy years. But then Berg's father developed Alzheimer's disease, and her parents were forced to leave the home they loved and move into a facility that could offer them help. It was time for the couple's children to offer, to the best of their abilities, practical advice, emotional support, and direction to, in effect, parent the people who had for so long parented them. It was a hard transition, mitigated at least by flashes of humor and joy. This story charts the passage from the anguish of loss to the understanding that, even in the most fractious times, love can heal, transform, and lead to graceful -- and grateful -- acceptance.