Lady Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister and great friend of Ronald Regan, has dementia. Lady Thatcher's daughter Carol has published a book called ‘A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl-A Memoir.' In the book Carol describes the first time she realized her mother's memory was beginning to fail. She says, "The realization came as a thunderbolt. I almost fell off my chair. Watching her struggle with her words and her memory, I couldn't believe it."
Carol Thatcher first noticed...
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