Facing Alzheimer's, this couple still finds time to dance, and seize joy in the moment

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When Sheree Fitch’s husband was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, she looked around for information to help them cope — but the negativity she found only increased her distress. 

“[It was all] ‘Oh, this is a horrible disease, and it’s a nightmare and oh, you’re going to hate your spouse,'” said Fitch, the author best known for her children’s books Mabel Murple and Sleeping Dragons All Around.

“And I kept thinking, ‘No, no, there’s got to be a way that this can also be something