JB Yanni

Wife, mother, grandma. Dog lover who would rather be on a beach than anywhere.  Award-Winning time travel adventure writer who believes there’s something to be learned from every bit of history and wouldn’t it be great to go where and whenever you wanted! Knows there are rules, scientific rules, that make the travel risky, but what is life without a little risk?

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Alzheimer’s is one of those terrible diseases that bit by bit takes the essence of a person away from them, their family and their friends. Along the way, everyone around a person with this affliction loses the memories of the time shared, the laughs, the tears, all that makes up a person. It’s cruel and demanding. 

This is the story of Lee, a trombone playing, cheerleading, mother of four, grandmother to eight and great grandmother to one. She married her high school sweetheart, loved to jitter bug, built dollhouses and decorated every surface of her house for Christmas. She also has Alzheimer’s. Although this disease now holds her in its grasp, it should not remove the funny, feisty, friend to so many, and beloved by her family.   

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