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I'm raising money for the Alzheimer's society because over the last 12 months it's touched our family, I want to share this poem that Gracie has written about her Grandad.

It's like you're here but really you're not

You're the same outer shell, but inside you're so different.

I can see you but can't quite reach you

So close but so distant.

Your sense of humour everlasting

Your kindness and your wit

We can't quite find the real you

And you're different every day.

What I wouldn't give to have one day with you

Where you're back to your old self.

I'd tell you everything, leave nothing out

That's my one biggest regret.

That I didn't quite appreciate you

When you were all here

That I didn't tell you

My hopes and my dreams.

Or listen when you told me you loved me

Or that I was clever

Or smart 

Or funny.

How stupid was I not to know

That you would be my biggest hero

And not to lock up every memory with you

Because soon they would start to go.

If only you knew how much you're missed

Despite that you're still here.

But I have to remember that you're still you

Just a little bit further away.

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