Ronald and Nancy Reagan - This episode, we look at love and dementia/Alzheimer’s Disease through the Reagan’s great American love story, starting as a Hollywood romance and becoming a lifelong love. Our first segment introduces how love endures the challenge of Alzheimer’s through knowing you are never alone, and having a little something to laugh about together! Our Friends and Lovers guest narrative, comes from writer Brooke Shelby Biggs and a tale about falling in love with your mother… every time you meet her, in a story called Hello, Goodbye.

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Links:

Song Lovity Love by Something Underground;

USS Vaudeville on PRX (https://exchange.prx.org/p/245924);

Ronald and Nancy Reagan: 

From Amazon.com:

I Love You Ronnie, The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan:

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Friends and Lovers Narrative:

From PBS.org, Alzheimer’s Stories, Hello, Goodbye, by Brooke Shelby Biggs (http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/alzheimers-stories-hello-goodbye/)

Love in America website: https://www.LoveInAmerica.us