Music in general, and karaoke in particular, helped this couple confront the challenges of illness and distance.

From the Chicago Tribune, March 16, 2014 (accessed online March 15):

by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Tribune Newspapers

Laura Gibson never imagined she would marry a man 18 years her senior, who lived 1,000 miles away, and whom she would meet, of all places, on a karaoke app.

But the outgoing 26-year-old also couldn’t have guessed that during her second year at law school she would be bitten by a tick while hanging around a campfire at her family’s summer home in New Hampshire and contract a debilitating case of Lyme disease.

Bedridden with seizures and severe fatigue, her young joints stiff with rheumatoid arthritis, Laura couldn’t do the things she loved most — socializing, singing, dancing — so she sought refuge in the Sing! Karaoke app by Smule, which is like a musical Facebook that lets users record songs and invite others to join in.

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