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Today we have a bonus episode for you. Who doesn't want to bonus anything?

Ronnie Conner is a TV writer, disability rights advocate, and mother of one of the most

important women in my life. My partner in writing, revolution, and occasional petty crime,

Jenny Conner. I sat down with Ronnie to talk about how one headache at age 44 altered the course

of her life.

So Ronnie, obviously we're talking to you in an episode about illness, and I wondered if you could

start by sort of naming what your particular illness if that's how we want to call it is.

Sure, I hope I don't freak people out because what happened is a little freaky. I was

married, I had two wonderful children, I had a really nice career, everything was perfect,

and I had a stroke in my early 40s. And do you remember the moment that it happened? Well,

I do remember what was funny, what happened was my mother's 70th birthday party,

which was at the Westwood Marquis, which is at the W Hotel.

The ambulance, the ambulance, I knew something was wrong.

And somebody said, why is your daughter limping to my mother? And I called Darryl and I said,

I think we better go to the doctor. I really don't feel well. Now we went and put me in the

amari, he said, right outside the tube, he talked to me. And he talked to me, and at one point

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