Well, hello. My name is Ron Rowan. I'm 56 years old and I have dementia.Now, when I tell people that, they sometimes look surprised. So, I like to break the tension a little bit with a little bit of humor. I have I have a joke that I've been working on steadily for months now.The only problem is that I forgot it. Everybody laughing there. It was It was not my kind of joke, but it worked perfectly.So anyway, that usually gets a chuckle out of people like it did here. And uh I'm glad to see that. Um it it rem ...

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