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Lara Ewen Faces the Music
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Lara Ewen Faces the Music

Living with MS, a budding singer-songwriter finds the only thing more frustrating than the incurable disease is the unforgiving treatment.

Emily Raw
Sep 23, 2013
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Songwriter Lara Ewen was once told that she "cursed like the Devil's whore." It was meant as a compliment. In swearing or in song, Ewen's wordplay wields a visceral punch. In 2008, Ewen had plenty to curse about: after some mysterious tingling and numbness in her extremities landed her in the hospital, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

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