My father, Jay, died of dementia in his eighties, after struggling with the disease for a decade. Ever since, I felt like I was on a timetable, that my mind had an expiration date of age seventy or so. It wasn’t a pleasant way to feel, but justified, I thought, given my paternal genetics.

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