spice. >> juliet: anyone coping with alzheimer's disease and couples often are led to divorce because of illness and a spouse physically healthy as a horse and mentally a shell of their former self, the author of jan's story joins us now, i have to say, a personal note, this book that you wrote affected me so much. and, i want to explain the story to you, the folks there, you covered myriad wars and you have been in dangerous conflicts and had things blowing up next to you and bugged by kgb agents but chose to write a love story, a personal and true love story, why is that? >> i think i wanted people to understand, by people, i mean other care givers and people involved in this, i think it is difficult to over estimate how solitary and lonely a job it becomes, your world shrinks down to taking care of the person that you love.