Rose Lee: Pleased to meet yu-you. I'm Rose Lee Ruth Strom. I'm… I'm about 8?
Robert: You're 73, Rose Lee.
Mark: Robert , please let Rose Lee answer all of my questions so that I can get a better sense of what is going on. I know that can be difficult when she struggles, but it is important.
Mark: Rose Lee, when is your birthday?
Rose Lee: [pause] Juggle… July. … No, wait. [pause] That's not right. Fla… flamingo. Oh, I don't know.
Mark: Let me ask that in a different way. Were you born in February, June, or November?
Rose Lee: Oh, yes, February! Things don't… matter.
Mark: Can you tell me what year you were born and what year it is today?
Rose Lee: Ahhh, I was born in… 19… fifty… one. 1944. 2020? I'm not sure. It was so long ago. [laughs]
Rose Lee: The pah– pred– president is John F. Kennedy. Such a wonderful thing he is!
Rose Lee: He's coming to my birth—day party tomorrow. Are you? We'll have lots of stuff.
Robert: See what I mean? It's not her birthday tomorrow.
Mark: Robert, it's okay. Let's do something else. Rose Lee, what is this? [A purple pen is displayed.]
Rose Lee: That's a thing you can do stuff with.
Mark: Can you tell me what it looks like?
Rose Lee: It's long and thin. And it's a pretty color, like a… a bird.
Mark: What would you use it for, Rose Lee?
Robert: Come on, dear, you know what this is
Rose Lee: Oh, my dear brother, it's to write stuff with.
Mark: Good. Do you know where you would use it?
Rose Lee: Ummmm, at worth… world … whu whu … work. At work.
Mark: Yes, that's right. Here, take it your hands and feel it.
Rose Lee: It's a pe-pen!