116 Reasons to Read the PRIMA SECUNDÆ PARTIS (First Part of the Second Part) of the Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
Even in the deepest depths of dementia my mother, Margaret Connell, was recognizable as the person, my mother, Margaret Connell. When we talked, she was there, she was my mother, Margaret Connell. When she slept all day after sleeping all night, she was there, as she waved her arm, telling people to leave her alone, she was the person, my mother, Margaret Connell. When was embarrassed because she couldn't remember some obvious thing, she was there, the person, my mother, Margaret Connell, recognizable and alive.