For six seasons, fans of the NBC hit drama This is Us tuned in each week to watch the Pearson Family saga unfold and to have a collective soul cleansing cry. This is Us delicately weaved in and out of multiple time periods to tell the heartwarming story of Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca Pearson (Mandy Moore) and their children, Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chrissy Metz), and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) (collectively, “the Big Three”).

Beginning in season three, the show began incorporating flash forwards that revealed the Pearson family gathered to say their final goodbyes to a mysterious woman referred only to as “her.” For the next few seasons, This is Us slowly unraveled the mystery surrounding why the family was gathered and explained the presence or absence of each family member. Ultimately, viewers learned that Rebecca was “her.” In the process, the writers revealed that the beloved Rebecca was suffering from dementia. During the fifth and sixth seasons, viewers watched Rebecca slowly deteriorate until she was no longer recognizable as the enviable wife and mother that everyone loved fiercely. Instead, in a cruel twist of fate, her memory and her sense of independence faded from her grasp more and more with each passing day.

In the final season, Rebecca’s illness began to take a noticeable toll on her primary caregiver, her second husband, Miguel Rivas (Jon Huertas), who just so happened to be her first husband Jack’s best friend. Eventually, Miguel’s own aging...

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