This couple won’t let Alzheimer’s erase 70 years of love
At 89 and 86, respectively, Alfred and Sylvia Paley have been married for 67 years and are now beginning the battle against memory loss.
Alfred was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. So, the couple’s grandson, Sam Maller, decided he would help them preserve their decades of memories with a video that celebrated their love and told their story.
The journalism student at Syracuse University created the moving video tribute to chronicle Alfred and Sylivia’s romance from the time they met as teenagers, in the hopes it would be a quick way to jog Alfred’s memory during his lapses.
“Life has been wonderful,” Alfred says in the video, entitled “A Life in Love.” “You want to know what love is? It’s wanting to be with certain people as much as you can.”
Just beautiful, you can watch the video above.
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