Watching my father decline with Alzheimer's convinced our family that he was happier — and more himself — living at home with my mother.
Freddy with his daughter (the author) at a local café.
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My dad is one of the most intelligent people I've ever met.He was known as a gifted poet and speaker at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia. But during this time, Colonel Hugo Banzer established a military dictatorship, and amid political repression of students, he left for Madrid in 1971.
Freddy and his wife, Adela, as newlyweds in Stockholm, Sweden, in the 1970s.
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