Forgotten memories
They have different recollections of where the conversation took place. She says they ran into each other at 7 Stages Theatre, he remembers bumping into her at a coffee shop.
It hardly matters. What Carolyn Cook and Adam Fristoe agree on - one small shared memory in a much larger story about how memory tragically slips away -- is what he asked her last fall. And the urgency of her response.
Fristoe's theater company, Out of Hand Theater, was creating a play about Alzheimer's with writer Steve Yockey, and he thought Carolyn would be perfect to help them shape the script and play the lead role. Maybe too perfect. He knew her 87-year-old mother, June Sparks, suffered from dementia. He also knew that in addition to being a wife, mother and one of Atlanta's premier stage actresses, Carolyn was one of her mother's primary caregivers.
