Hi everybody it's Sabrina. I'm here because today we're doing something special.

We're revisiting a show from earlier this year, from January. The story at the

center of this episode, which was first a magazine feature by reporter

Katie Engelhart, it just won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing this past week.

Our team here at the Daily, including producers Luke Fender Plouge,

Claire Tinous Sketter, Diana Wynne, and deputy editor Michael Benoit worked with Katie to tell that story in audio.

Both versions, we think, shed powerful human light

on a disease that affects so many people.

Dementia.

So we wanted to resurface it for all of you.

Hope you'll give it a listen.

Here's the show.

Amongst philosophers who study dementia, there's this story that gets told over and over again and it's about a woman named Margot.

Margot was a 55 year old woman who suffered from early onset Alzheimer's disease.

She couldn't recognize anyone around her.

She spent her days painting and listening to music. She read

mystery novels too. Often the same book day after day, the mystery always remained

mysterious because she would forget it.

But despite her on this, or maybe even because of it,

Margot was very happy.

The Margot story presents philosophers with this riddle.

Imagine that years ago when Margot was fully competent,

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