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StoryCorps: Humor Is the Best Medicine

4.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's Disease and the number continues to grow as our population ages. People with Alzheimer's and other forms of memory loss have a lifetime worth of stories that are at risk of being forgotten. That's why the oral history project StoryCorps is traveling around the country working to preserve many of those stories. They recently spent a few days in Cleveland, recording conversations between people with memory loss and their caregivers. Over the weeks to come 90.3 will broadcast some of those conversations. We begin with Sue Roby and her husband George. They're celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this year. Sue is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. They spoke at StoryCorps in Beachwood.