Author Elaine Pereira is entirely correct - there are some things we will never forget as special sets of circumstances will remain with us forever.
For Pereira, those memories etched in memory, relate to caring for her mother as she is ravaged by the effects of dementia.
Those permanent memories are shared in her book, "I Will Never Forget: A Daughter's Story of Her Mother's Arduous and Humorous Journey through Dementi.
" I Will Never Forget is a powerful true story of the author's talented mother, Betty's, poignant and humorous journey through dementia.
As their mother-daughter relationship evolves, Elaine referees her mom's uncharacteristic verbal assaults and Houdini-like disappearances.
Finally, Elaine accompanies her mother as her brilliant mind is slowly destroyed by dementia's insatiable appetite for brain cells.
In this moving account, Pereira shares warm and humorous incidents as well as tragic and overwhelming encounters from the death of her father, sister-in-law, brother and her mother's journey through a new world after her familiar world escaped from her memory.
There are several humorous incidents shared in "I Will Never Forget," but there are also many moving and poignant accounts of the painstaking role of being a caretaker for your mother who increasingly forgets who your area.
Those who have undertaken the role of caretaker for an aging loved one knows how emotional draining that experience is as well as being rewarding once in a while.
But in the end, which always comes, there is no regret.
"In I Will Never Forget", Elaine Pereira gives a lot of very helpful advice based on lessons she learned while caring for her mother.
And so the book becomes therapeutic, instructional, and informational as well as being a highly moving personal account of how dementia corrals victims like a rancher corrals horses.
Even if you have not undertaken the care of a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer's, chances are great you will if you outlive your parents, siblings, relatives or close friends.
Between then and now would be an opportune time to read "I Will Never Forget".
I recommend you do.