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The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks sends his 'thoughts and prayers' to Gena Rowlands after her Alzheimer's diagnosis was revealed


Gena played the older version of Rachel McAdams ' Allie in The Notebook - a character who was battling dementia on-screen.

Although she had a decades long career, Rowlands's (left) depiction of Old Allie, the older version of Rachel McAdams's (right) character, made the movie a love story for the ages. The film cuts between the unlikely couple's passionate youth and the present day, where an elderly Noah, disguised as 'Duke,' reads their story from a notebook to a fellow nursing home resident – his wife Allie (Gena Rowlands) now suffering from dementia. To keep the spark alive and rekindle their romance in spite of her memory loss, Noah has been reading out of a notebook written by Allie in the beginning stages of her illness, detailing their love story so he can help her remember him.

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