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She wanted her final journey to be in the town where she grew up and dreamed of her life after her family was torn apart when cancer took her mother, the pillar of the family. Even as dementia gradually eroded her mental faculties, the one word she constantly edged at the tip of her tongue was 'I want to go Penang.' The message later became garbled in the languages Tamil, English, and Malay as the neural connections began to die one by one.
