Elle - USA (2019-06)

B

y the time I was old enough to ask my grandmother ques-

tions about her life, it was too late. All I had were skele-

tons of stories I heard from my mom. I knew that it had

been difficult for my grandmother when her parents,

Irish immigrants on the vaudeville circuit, left her behind to help

care for her younger brother when they traveled. But who cared for

her? I heard about how, after her parents became successful radio

stars, she was once set up on a date with Frank Sinatra, but when

he arrived, with my grandmother waiting to make an entrance, he

used language she didn’t like, so she sent word that she wouldn’t

be going. But what had he said? I knew that she and my grand-

father divorced not long after my mom was born, and that my

grandmother subsequently spent time in the hospital. But for what

illness? When I’d ask her, she’d respond about the weather. And

Alzheimer’s disease, which affects nearly 6 million Americans, has long

frustrated medical researchers. But a promising new vaccine from a

family-led biotech company may crack the code. By Molly Langmuir

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