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Wayne Roberts reaches over and touches his wife Lynne Roberts’ shoulder as she gazes out a window in their home on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023 in Butte. “I’ve been preparing for this for 13 years,” Wayne said while speaking about being Lynne’s caregiver. “She was 9 years older than I was when I married her. I thought this might be something that I would have to do.”
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This is a picture story that follows Wayne and Lynne Roberts, of Butte, through the struggles and rewards of family caregiving in the last year of her life.