Well into his twenties, Joe Wallace was asked to sit with his "Granddaddy Joe" while Wallace's mother and grandmother ran errands. His grandfather was once a vibrant man, and he'd been Wallace's "hero," but Alzheimer's had put a curtain of sorts between them, and Wallace was "so frightened to be left alone with him." It didn't take long for him to realize that day that his grandfather was full of stories, and it was "magical." He applied the same kind of patience when his grandmother began to experience dementia, too, and this spurred Wallace to tell a story of his own with his camera.

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