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To bring you this public service annoucement. This week is A week like this has taken on new importance in the So Many Books household. In January of this year my Bookman was diagnosed with MS. We are both doing fine, but the unknown of the disease is something that is taking time to deal with. Unlike some diseases, MS is highly unpredictable; everyone who has it has a different experience with it. We have learned there are quite a few famous people with MS inlcuding Joan Didion, Stanley Elkin, Judy Grahn, Nicola Griffith, Montel Williams, and Teri Garr. Garr has a book out, Speed Bumps, (See how I manage to slip something bookish in?) in which she writes about her experience with MS as well as her life in the limelight. She was in six Elvis movies, was present for the recording of Yellow Submarine, and of course, starred in Young Frankenstein. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Chances are you know someone with MS. So take a minute, click on the awareness link, and learn a bit about the disease.