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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
We're back with a new show next week, but today we're bringing you the perfect road trip playlist, featuring some of our favorite past episodes.
This week, stories about relationships challenged by illness, challenges that are sometimes physical, sometimes emotional.
First, an essay by Robert Leleux about Alzheimer's and how for his family, it was both a burden and a blessing.
His piece is read by Oscar nominated actor Michael Shannon Michaels.
Next film, due out in October, is called what they had.
Your grandmother has alzheimers, right?
The doctor asked me, scrawling notes into a floppy Manila folder.
I hadnt expected to discuss my grandmothers alzheimers with him.
I was hoping to hear some explanation as to why, apart from her memory, my grandmothers overall health seemed so mysteriously improved.
Her lupus, for instance, had all but disappeared from her bloodwork.
Yes, but, I began.
Well, there is a theory, he said, interrupting, that people with Alzheimer's heal themselves of their diseases because they forget they have them.
I glanced across the room at my beautiful grandmother, smiling vaguely in her lipstick pink trench coat.
But you don't really believe that, I said.