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America Reframed
Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury | Promo
At 45, Laury, an actress and mother of two, had a reputation as the quickest wit in the room. At 46, she began forgetting words and soon could barely speak. Follow Laury in her descent to fronto-temporal dementia (early onset dementia) in a personal portrait of a woman who is facing the unthinkable and the impact her progressive disease has on loved ones in Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury.
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