What Was Left When Things Got Stripped Away?

Dementia is a stripping away of the layers that we all build up in this, in this life just to be out in the world. And it's a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what that essence is. Who could have been more skilled at building up these laters than first an actor and then a politician in the preseet of the united states? We always adored him and wanted more from him. The fact that he was an elusive and not very present, always present father a, you know, none of us ever took that as that idn't care, or he didn't love us, or somethinghejuhe didn't know how.