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When I came back home from deployment, my wife was telling the neighbors, “His mother has dementia. She keeps injuring herself.” But when I discovered Mom locked in a dark bedroom, completely aware of everything happening around her, with no phone and covered in br:uis:es she would not explain, I knew something was very wrong. So I smiled, pretended I believed every single word my wife said, and secretly recorded her boasting, “Nobody is ever going to believe that old woman.” The next morning, I drove her to the psychiatric evaluation she had arranged for Mom, and I gave the doctor a completely different file.