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The day before Mother's Day this year, police received a call from a wife frantic because her husband, who suffers Alzheimer's disease, had gone missing from the Little Rock, Arkansas home. 今年母亲节前夕，警方收到一位妻子的惊慌报警，称自己身患老年痴呆症的丈夫从家里失踪了。夫妇二人家住阿根色州小岩城。 Police found Melvin Amrine two blocks from their home, unable to tell officers where he lives. 警察在离他们家两个街区的地方发现了梅尔文·爱莫林，当时他说不清自己家住哪里。 However, he wasn't confused as to where he was going: he was buying his wife Doris flowers for Mother's Day, as he had every year since she had given birth to their first child. 然而他对于自己要去的地方却毫不含糊：他要给妻子多莉丝买母亲节鲜花，因为这是一惯例是从她生了第一个孩子开始每年都坚持的。 Melvyn Amrine has been slowly deteriorating since he was diagnosed with the condition three years ago. 梅尔文·爱莫林自从三年前被诊断出老年痴呆症后，身体健康每况愈下。 His wife has become her husband's carer, watching helplessly as the cruel disease steals her husband's memories and personality away from him. 妻子成了丈夫的护工，无助地眼睁睁看着疾病残忍地夺走丈夫的记忆和个性。 Officers radioed dispatch to say they would take the elderly man straight home - but Melvyn Amrine was having none of that. | 
