After memory loss: He proposed, she said yes, again

Every time Linda Feldman visits her husband, Michael O’Reilley, in memory care, he falls in love with her again.

He has Alzheimer’s and does not remember their nearly four decades of marriage — only the feeling that they belong together. So he proposes, again and again. And Linda always says yes.

The couple’s story shows what Alzheimer’s can take – and what it often leaves behind. It’s a familiar story to many: Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 7 million people age 65 and over in America...