‘Thank You for Staying’: 56-Year-Old With Alzheimer’s Proposes to Wife, Again—and She Says Yes

‘Thank You for Staying’: 56-Year-Old With Alzheimer’s Proposes to Wife, Again—and She Says Yes
Courtesy of Lisa Brenner Marshall
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Peter Marshall didn’t know that the woman sitting next to him—his “favorite person”—was already his wife. Suffering early-onset Alzheimer’s, the 56-year-old man from Connecticut had fallen in love for a second time.

Not remembering his wife, nor their first wedding, Peter had done nothing short of proposing again, and the pair actually went ahead and renewed their vows in a ceremony in late April.