My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
From Karolyn Grimes
It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.
In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.
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