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Lawanda Wilson was 72 when she decided to test her luck and drive from her home in Midland to Las Vegas to visit one of her sons in the summer.

Though she had been there before,she couldn't find her son's on ended up sleeping in her car for days. She planned to go back to Midland,but it was clear she was no longer capable of taking care of wasn't wasn't taking her turned out she was at the beginning stage of Alzheimer's（老年痴呆症）.

"I knew that my mother was starting to lose her memory a little bit,"her eldest son Blane said,"but I never dreamed that it would be like this."

Blane and his brother,Scott,had promised each other that they wouldn't put their mother in a nursing when Blane invited his mother to come to his home,his decision came as a surprise to his new wife,Georgia.

Georgia,a young widow,and Blane were still newlyweds when his mother came to live with them in the winter of gia barely knew her mother-in-law and,suddenly,they had taken on this her husband's three children grown,they thought they were finally going to kick back and have a little more fun in their lives.

"I think about that every day."Georgia said."How did this happen?It's like adopting another child."

For nine months,they r,Georgia left after a short separation,they were reconciled（和好） 2005,the couple decided to build a small house in the hoped it would give them the personal space they needed to save their e used all of his savings to build the house,which he believed would be worth it.

couldn't Lawanda Wilson find her son's home?

use Alzheimer's weakened her memory.

use Alzheimer's weakened her eyesight.

use she couldn't focus her attention on driving.

use she had never driven to her son's home on her own.

was Georgia surprised when Blane invited his mother to his home?

use she was newly married to him.                         use she hated to live with the elderly.

use she hadn't expected to take the responsibility.     use she had had a quarrel with his mother.

h of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

t didn't want to take care of his mother.

nda decided to drive to her son's home and live there.

her of Lawanda's sons would send her to a nursing home.

e and Georgia were newly married and they had four children.

's the main purpose of building a small house in the backyard?

keep their pets.                                let the children sleep in.

let his mother live in.                               save the marriage of the couple.

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