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Hello, I'm Claire Longerick, Deputy Editor of the Guardian Longread.

This December, we're bringing you a few of our favourite audio long reads from the past year.

I wanted to talk about a memoir by our colleague, sportswriter Michael Aylwyn, whose wife

died tragically young after a long struggle with Alzheimer's.

Mike's piece is titled, It Comes for Your Very Soul, How Alzheimer's Undid My Dazzling, Creative

Wife in Her Forties.

Like many of the memoir pieces we've published in the Long Read, this one came to us,

so we were unprepared for the shattering emotional impact of this family's story.

Michael describes the onset of his wife Vanessa's disease,

through those little domestic moments that an outsider would miss.

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