MJ Grant's mother, Carmen, has battled dementia for almost seven years now and often forgets who Grant is, as was the case when the two were sat chatting in Grant's car.
The pair had driven to a beach near their Sanford, Maine, home and Carmen, 76, had begun discussing her children – not realising the daughter she said she was missing was sat right beside her.
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