As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
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When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer
“Robert Munsch wrote ‘The Paper Bag Princess,’ ‘Love You Forever’ and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But his stories are slipping away.”
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The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
“And many people with the condition are cared for at home.”
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Losers Keepers
“Better to imagine some subterranean Gollum crooning over my memories than to accept them being lost completely.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Audrey Ash, Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard, Casey Tolan, Lou Robinson, and Byron Manley; Lindsey Liles; David Gauvey Herbert; Laura Trethewey; and Abe Beame.
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How Elderly Dementia Patients Are Unwittingly Fueling Political Campaigns
“A CNN investigation reveals how deceptive political fundraising has misled elderly Americans into giving away millions of dollars.”
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When Antonietta Vanished, Her Friends Couldn’t Get Any Answers. It was Only After She Died That the Mystery Began to Unravel
“A Toronto woman all but disappeared from the home she lived in for decades and the friends she had made there.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition, we recommend stories from Eli Saslow, Mitchell S. Jackson, Adam Ciralsky, Heidi Lasher, and Noah Rawlings.