"I had this odd sibling rivalry with America."
"My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love."
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Source: Patti Davis on rebelling against Reagan by Karin Tanabe, www.politico.com. December 12, 2011.
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