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...Illinois farmer's wife, it was the decline in the quality of her husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn't saw a straight line." And for Chicago Office Clerk Eleanor Marzillo, it began with her husband's difficulty in shaving; first his trim mustache got bushier and bushier, then one day he shaved half of it off. At the same time, Marzillo recalls, rags were mysteriously collecting in the family car. "I couldn't figure out what Tony was doing...
...intelligent and athletic Mrs. Holmes, now 65, forgot how to cook: she set a chicken ablaze by trying to roast it over all four burners of her stove. She also forgot how to play tennis and ultimately she had trouble recognizing her friends. Once an active Y.M.C.A. employee, Tony Marzillo, 61, gradually lost all ability to care for himself, becoming incontinent, unruly and destructive. "It was like chasing a 6-ft.-tall toddler around," his wife recalls, "except you knew that a toddler would eventually learn the rules of the house." Today both Marzillo and Holmes are institutionalized. Says Eleanor...
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