Welcome to Kind World from W-B-U.R. Today's story is about Alice Saunders, who grew up in New Hampshire and a house on top of a hill near a pond.

I spent most of my childhood outside with my feet in the water digging for frogs and tadpoles

and with like salamanders in my overall pockets.

That Adilig childhood was interrupted when Alice was in middle school and her parents decided to divorce.

After that, she lived with her dad, Arby R. Saunders, better known as Arby, and they became a tight pair.

Legal Aid lawyer and his teenage daughter.

A 15 year old living in small town New Hampshire and I liked punk rock and no one else did and

so my dad would drive me to Boston so I could go to concerts and he would sit in the parking lot and like read the New York Times and wait for me.

He never would admit that he liked the music, but then I'd put it on in the car and he would tap the steering wheel like in time with the beat.

They had a dinner date every Thursday night.

I'm sure there were a lot of times where I like sat there in angsty silence.

But usually they talked about life.

The fact is she admired him more than anyone.

He was just my closest friend.

Alice was getting ready to move to Boston for college when she

remembers something weird happened. There had been a piniata in our house for

someone's birthday party and he was trying to talk about the pinata but he kept saying

Pina pina calata. It's like what is he talking about like pina calata like what?

She didn't think much of it, but that sort of thing started happening more,

and she was in her 20s when they finally learned why.

Arpy had frontotemporal dementia, or FTD.

His form of dementia mainly affected speech. temporal dementia, or FTD.

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