The Eternal Embrace of Memory Loss

The Story

This skeleton couple, locked in what's been called an "eternal embrace" are the Romeo and Juliet of the Stone Age. Could they be the Romeo and Juliet of Dementiaville? Could they be Alan and Karen Wright -- in a previous life, perhaps?

Romeo has said repeatedly that the next time around, he wants us to be born on the same day and year so we can spend our entire lives together. He has planned the details. We will know each other from birth but not be related. He wants to be the man again next time and wants me to be the woman. We will be married young, no children. We will live on the water, the Mediterranean. It will be the Golden Age, and we will have no problems or difficulties to deal with. There will most certainly be no dementia.

The power, the strength, the bond of love transcends physical life. We know this. In the year after our wedding, people would ask me how long we'd been married. "Six months," I'd say, feeling as if I were lying. It had not been six months at all. We've really been married for 6,000 years. Yes, that many years -- in the good sense. We've always been together, always. And we always will be, always. We know this for certain. Dementia can do nothing at all to change that.