"Are you a baker?" Anna asked innocently. Her wrinkled face contrasted with her childlike gaze. "If so, make lots of cakes for me. I’ll share them with my mother and siblings. They have to try them too."

"She’s gone back to her teenage years. I saw that look when I first met her decades ago," William explained.

"Anna truly doesn’t remember that her parents and all her siblings have passed away. Sometimes at home, she calls out all their names," William continued.

"You’re amazing," Bryan praised. He couldn’t imagine what William went through with his wife’s illness. Perhaps there were many tears because the woman he loved with all his...