Michael J. Fox was just 29 years old when a doctor told him the word that would change his life: Parkinson’s.
He did not first think about his career or the future looming ahead. He thought about Tracy Pollan, his wife, and the fear that she might not be able to bear what was coming. That she would grow tired. That one day she would decide to leave.
More than 35 years have passed. Tracy never left. The actor, whose body has now been transformed by the disease, has repeated it in every interview: she never made him feel like a burden, and their marriage became the best thing in his entire life. Sometimes love is not measured in promises, but in the years it chooses to stay when everything suggested it could leave.