Michael Shannon reads an essay that explores how Alzheimer's put one family back together.
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From the New York Times and WBUR, Boston, this is modern.
Love.
Stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
It is rare, very rare, for Alzheimer's to be viewed as a blessing.
But Robert Leleux says the disease changed his family's life for the better.
Here's his modern love piece, a memory magically interrupted, read by the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated actor Michael Shandon.
Your grandmother has Alzheimer's, right?
The doctor asked me, scrawling notes into a floppy Manila folder.
I hadn't expected to discuss my grandmother's Alzheimer's with him.