"...she discovered an upside to forgetting. She had forgotten old rancors...." This bears repeating, because it's both interesting and unexpected. I have a re

"...she discovered an upside to forgetting. She had forgotten old rancors...." This bears repeating, because it's both interesting and unexpected. I have a relative with Alzheimer's—diagnosed a year ago—and while the signs are unmistakable, she's also still perfectly conversational, reasonably independent, and most surprisingly, much more amiable towards people to whom she was formerly rather cool. Our best explanation is exactly as stated in the article: that she had basically forgotten the rancor. Anyway, I saw her so clearly in that line of the article I had to point it out, because it was (and still is) so surprising to us that this would be an effect of Alzheimer's.