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Grandfather with Alzheimer's thinks he's meeting grandson for the first time

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Grandfather with Alzheimer’s thinks he’s meeting grandson for the first time in heartbreaking clip

A new mother has shared a sweet clip of her father with Alzheimers playing with her baby like it’s the first time.

Olivia Salza says the pair have met ‘a few times’, but her father’s condition means he doesn’t remember, and they get to fall in love all over again like it’s day one.

“It never gets easier, but these are precious memories to me”, she wrote on TikTok.

“This makes me feel a little better about this disease”, one commenter added.

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