as well as physicians. >> so you struggled to get a proper diagnosis, and marja struggled to get thatwhy is it so difficult? >> again, it is multi factorial. physicians trained prior to ten years ago were taught it was a rare disease, 1 in 10,000. there was a study came out in 2003 that says incidence is 1 in 133. that's a huge jump in what the actual number of people with celiac disease is. >> so physicians that were trained were not looking for it. >> now people are looking for it, more aware of it. incidence of celiac is still on the rise. >> if you think you have it, you go to the doctor, the doctor says i am not testing for that, how do you make your case? >> what i recommend to patients, hopefully that's not happening much, but it does still happen occasionally, they go to a reputable website, university of chicago celiac center, or harvard celiac now website and print what the symptoms are and bring that to their physician and say look, this could be what i have, can you please test me. it is a very inexpensive screening test. hopefully people won't be running into that barrier

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to sweet home alabama, marja mills. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you so much. just thrilled to be here and see this gorgeous theater i had been hearing about and reading about for quite sometime. thank you jake for what you said and putting together just a magical evening. it was for me such a privilege to get to know no harper lee and her older sister alice lee and to have them share these stories with me, those that chose to share and a privilege to share them with you. some of my favorite times as "harper's" for example were around the kitchen table and the house i rented next door to the heirs. i hope you will just pull up a chair to the kitchen table with us and let's share some stories. let's celebrate with no harper lee and her equally remarkable sister alice lee and also the friends in the family in that town who so generously helped me to understand the context of their lives and of that town. please pull up a chair and let's have a good chat around the kitchen table. >> well, that was short and sw

please welcome back to sweet home alabama marja mills. [applause] >> thank you so much i am thrilled to be here to see this gorgeous theater it was the privilege to get to know harper lee and her older sister and a privilege to share them with few. some of my favorite times around the kitchen table. i hope you just pull up a kitchen chair to celebrate the stories and listen about harper lee and her remarkable sister and her friends and family in that town to understand the context of their lives. please pull up the chair around the kitchen table. >> that was short and sweet senator i have then edited for some time as always try a to see if i can use fewer words which is not normally the first option. >> just what went through your mind when you were at the motel in alabama with a telephone in your room and the voice on the other and said hello? this is harper lee. >> guest: i wonder if we might meet? eyes tried to keep my voice from rising. it was as if the "wizard of oz" just called my motel room. i was surprised and thrilled that the ch

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to sweet home alabama, marja mills. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you so much. just thrilled to be here and see this gorgeous theater i've been hearing about and reading about for quite some time. thank you, jake, for what you said and for putting together just a magical evening. it was for me such a privilege to get to know harper lee and her older sister, and to have them share these stories with me, those that chose to share and i'm privileged to share them with you. so my favorite ones were, around the kitchen table in the house that are rented next door to there's in monroeville. i hope you just pull up a chair to this kitchen table with us, let's share some stories, celebrate with them and their friends and family in that town who so generously helped me to understand the context of their lives and of that down. and please pull up a chair to i would love to have a good chat around the kitchen table. >> short and sweet. let's just, we will just get right to it and then spit i've been edited for

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