strange: he recalled that, at a certain point, all alzheimer's patients degenerate to the "homeless" stage, the stage at which the afflicted individual would stubbornly proclaim that s/he needed to "go home," even when they WERE home. it was as though they no longer realized where home was. or, to put a twist to it, that they realized that home, in its truest sense, did not exist: never had, never would.

when put this way, he felt, in his mid 30's, a strange affinity with all alzheimer's patients.