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Scenes from Beneath The Surface: A Film About Living with MS
Last December, it dawned on Marylou Kandur that it had been over nine months since the members of her Parkinson's disease support group had seen each other's faces. While many other groups had pivoted online after COVID hit back in March, her Rhinebeck Parkinson's Support Group—most of them senior citizens lacking in digital fluency—lagged behind. "Let me see if I can get these people together," thought Kandur, a retired entrepreneur in Red Hook who has had a manageable form of Parkinson's for 22 years. "But what will I say to them?"