"Gone was the daddy who tucked me in with bedtime stories, took my side over Mom’s, and let me stay home from school when I faked being sick."
I stood in the center of my parents’ Valley Stream, Long Island, living room, heatedly yelling at my 90-year-old West Indian father — a U.S. veteran with advanced Alzheimer’s-related dementia — and wondered how we had regressed to this familiar, host... [9229 chars]