EPILOGUE

For nineteen years —6,978 days—Arline devoted herself to Walt. She displayed the qualities Walt had espoused when he summarized a teacher’s goal: to get each new class of rookies off of the bench and into the game. Walt’s stroke had made him a “rookie" disabled person;  Arline got him into the game. She developed a daily routine designed to minimize cognitive loss and to develop new skills to compensate for those he had lost.