“If you see a little less spring to my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you’ll know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.”
That was actor Charlton Heston in 2002, announcing that he had “symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s disease.”
Heston died Saturday at age 84.
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