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In his moments of clarity, his love for life's details only grows deeper and richer: the limestone creek where he has fished for years; his satisfying and lonely herb farming days; the goldfish pond his son designed and built in his backyard in honor of DeBaggio's passion for any hole in the ground with some liquid in it; the thirty years in his beloved home in Arlington, Virginia; his early career as a muckraker; the innumerable precious moments spent with his wife and son; his belated grief over his parents' deaths.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50358538338577,"sku":"CIN0743250036G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50358540665105,"sku":"CIN0743250036VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51272527806737,"sku":"GOR014213322","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53460098122001,"sku":"CIN0743250036A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0743250036.jpg?v=1750817275"},{"product_id":"basil-book-thomas-debaggio-9781883010195","title":"Basil","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402389524753,"sku":"CIN1883010195G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51417902874897,"sku":"CIN1883010195VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52866548793617,"sku":"CIN1883010195A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1883010195.jpg?v=1750867119"},{"product_id":"when-it-gets-dark-book-thomas-debaggio-9781416573203","title":"When It Gets Dark","description":"\u003cb\u003eAdeptly navigating between elegy and celebration, fear and determination, confusion and clarity, DeBaggio delivers an exquisitely moving and inspiring book that will resonate with all those who have grappled with their own or their loved ones' memory loss and with death.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith his first memoir, \u003ci\u003eLosing My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas DeBaggio stunned readers by laying bare his faltering mind in a haunting and beautiful meditation on the centrality of memory to human life, and on his loss of it to early-onset Alzheimer's disease. 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