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c o n t e n t s Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Dilemmas of Dementia Diagnoses 16 2. Receiving the Diagnosis 32 3. Personhood 44 4. What Is Friendship? 62 5. When Our Friends Travel the Dementia Road 77 6. Dementia Fear and Anxiety 93 7. Beyond Fear and Anxiety 109 8. The Flourishing Community 122 9. Congregations as Schools for Friendship 132 10. The Things That Abide 149 11. Practicing Friendship in the “Thin Places” 163 12. Memory, Forgetting, and the Present Time 183 Discussion Questions 197 Notes 201 References 213 Index 227 This page intentionally left blank ...

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