Sentence:  Max , in a fit of despair , takes Alicia and runs off for two marvelous weeks in Burbank ( Fink calls it `` the most wonderful and lovely fourteen days in my whole life '' ) , at the end of which Alicia tragically contracts <WSD>Parkinson's</WSD> disease and dies . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination