Uma linda história real de amor e dedicação, extraída do portal Quora.com e traduzida para o português.
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| What is the bravest thing you have ever seen someone do? | Qual é a coisa mais corajosa que você já viu alguém fazer? |
| I watched my father care for my mother for six years as she slowly succumbed to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. | Eu assisti meu pai cuidar de minha mãe por seis anos enquanto ela lentamente sucumbia aos estragos da doença de Alzheimer. |
| He gradually took over all the housework and cooking while dealing daily with her hurt, her rage, her confusion and her fear. | Ele gradualmente assumiu todo o trabalho doméstico e cozinha, enquanto lidava diariamente com sua dor, sua raiva, sua confusão e seu medo. |
| He protected her from herself. | Ele a protegeu de si mesma. |
| He made sure that she kept the weekly hair and nail appointments that she so loved. | Ele se certificou de que ela mantivesse as visitas semanais ao cabeleireiro e à manicure que tanto amava. |
| He went shopping with her for the pretty clothes she adored. | Ele saía com ela para fazer as compras das roupas bonitas que ela adorava. |
| When he finally acquiesced to his children's insistence that our mother be placed in a nursing facility (because we were worried that his health was suffering from the strain of her care), he visited her twice every day. | Quando ele finalmente, ante a insistência de seus filhos, concordou com a internação de nossa mãe em uma casa de repouso (nós estávamos preocupados que sua saúde sofresse com a tensão de seus cuidados), ele a visitava duas vezes por dia. |
| He paid aides to apply her makeup and arrange her hair every day. | Ele pagou assistentes para aplicar a maquiagem e arrumar o cabelo dela todos os dias. |
| When the facility requested that he take her jewelry from her, including her $30,000 diamond engagement ring, he had a jeweler make up copies using cubic zirconia so that she never knew that she wasn't still wearing her own lovely things. | Quando a casa de repouso solicitou que ele pegasse as jóias dela, incluindo seu anel de noivado de diamante de U$30.000, ele mandou um joalheiro fazer cópias usando zircônia cúbica para que ela nunca soubesse que não estava mais usando suas próprias coisas adoráveis. |
| And at her memorial service, the room fragrant with dozens of heavy bouquets of gardenias which were her favorite flower, my stoic father fought to keep his composure as he spoke of his love for the lively, witty, beautiful woman who had spent almost sixty years at his side. | E em seu memorial, a sala perfumada com dezenas de enormes buquês de gardênias, que eram sua flor favorita, meu estóico pai lutou para manter a compostura enquanto falava de seu amor pela animada, espirituosa e bela mulher que passara quase sessenta anos ao seu lado. |
| He called their time together a privilege, and recounted as though it had happened yesterday the first time he ever spoke with her, on a staircase at their university. | Ele disse que o tempo que passaram juntos foi um privilégio e contou, como se tivesse acontecido ontem, como foi a primeira vez em que se falaram, em uma escada da universidade. |
| The manifestation of my father's commitment and devotion to my mother in those unimaginably difficult years is the bravest thing I have ever witnessed. | A manifestação do compromisso e devoção de meu pai por minha mãe naqueles anos inimaginavelmente difíceis é a coisa mais corajosa que já presenciei. |
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| 4 | a | 3 | years | 3 | mother |
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| 2 | their | 2 | spoke | 2 | so |
| 2 | is | 2 | in | 2 | I |
| 2 | have | 2 | hair | 2 | father |
| 2 | facility | 2 | every | 2 | day |
| 2 | care | 2 | bravest | 1 | zirconia |
| 1 | you | 1 | yesterday | 1 | worried |
| 1 | woman | 1 | witty | 1 | witnessed |
| 1 | who | 1 | while | 1 | which |
| 1 | what | 1 | went | 1 | weekly |
| 1 | wearing | 1 | we | 1 | watched |
| 1 | wasn't | 1 | was | 1 | visited |
| 1 | using | 1 | up | 1 | university |
| 1 | unimaginably | 1 | twice | 1 | took |
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| 1 | things | 1 | take | 1 | sure |
| 1 | suffering | 1 | succumbed | 1 | strain |
| 1 | stoic | 1 | still | 1 | staircase |
| 1 | spent | 1 | someone | 1 | slowly |
| 1 | sixty | 1 | six | 1 | side |
| 1 | shopping | 1 | service | 1 | seen |
| 1 | room | 1 | ring | 1 | requested |
| 1 | recounted | 1 | ravages | 1 | rage |
| 1 | protected | 1 | privilege | 1 | pretty |
| 1 | placed | 1 | paid | 1 | own |
| 1 | over | 1 | our | 1 | on |
| 1 | nursing | 1 | never | 1 | nail |
| 1 | memorial | 1 | manifestation | 1 | makeup |
| 1 | make | 1 | made | 1 | lovely |
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| 1 | knew | 1 | kept | 1 | keep |
| 1 | jewelry | 1 | jeweler | 1 | it |
| 1 | insistence | 1 | including | 1 | hurt |
| 1 | housework | 1 | herself | 1 | heavy |
| 1 | health | 1 | happened | 1 | gradually |
| 1 | gardenias | 1 | fragrant | 1 | fought |
| 1 | flower | 1 | first | 1 | finally |
| 1 | fear | 1 | favorite | 1 | father's |
| 1 | engagement | 1 | dozens | 1 | do |
| 1 | disease | 1 | difficult | 1 | diamond |
| 1 | devotion | 1 | dealing | 1 | daily |
| 1 | cubic | 1 | copies | 1 | cooking |
| 1 | confusion | 1 | composure | 1 | commitment |
| 1 | clothes | 1 | children's | 1 | called |
| 1 | bouquets | 1 | because | 1 | beautiful |
| 1 | be | 1 | arrange | 1 | appointments |
| 1 | apply | 1 | alzheimer's | 1 | almost |
| 1 | all | 1 | aides | 1 | adored |
| 1 | acquiesced | 1 | $ |
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