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Death, Sex & Money

Joy Williams' Public Breakup and Private Grief

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

As her Grammy-winning duo The Civil Wars was publicly falling apart, Joy Williams was privately dealing with a rocky patch in her marriage, a new baby and her father's cancer diagnosis. Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Anna. And before we start, I need to share some sad news with you.

0:05.0

In our siblings episode, you met Alex Sugarman and her twin Katie, who had cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic.

0:12.0

Alex got in touch to tell us that her sister cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic.

0:12.8

Alex got in touch to tell us that her sister Katie died on July 17th.

0:17.8

Katie had a heart attack.

0:19.2

She was taken to the hospital and put on life support,

0:22.1

but her condition continued to deteriorate.

0:25.0

Katie was an organ donor, and her body

0:28.0

which she could feel so confined by

0:30.0

helped save the lives of five people, including two children, the family was told.

0:36.4

It was a privilege to meet Katie and to capture her honesty and a cervic sense of humor

0:41.8

on tape.

0:43.2

I've heard from many of you who connected to some part of their story as sisters, and

0:47.9

Alex told me that hearing from you now might help.

0:51.2

So if you have a reflection to share, email us a note or send a voice memo to

0:55.1

death sex money at WNYC.org and we will share it with Alex and her family. Rest in

1:01.0

peace, Katie. Now here's the latest episode.

1:05.0

I used to clean before I would songwright.

1:09.0

It was sort of like a way of ordering my inner world, but life doesn't work that way.

1:14.0

This is death, sex, and money.

1:20.0

Why did you have to die?

1:22.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

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