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Maria Shriver on meeting heartbreak with poetry

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Maria Shriver's new book, " I Am Maria ," is unflinchingly public account of a very private journey.

"I wanted to figure out who I was aside from the hair and the teeth that everybody just kept pointing to," she says.

She admits that she makes herself vulnerable by making it public: "And I'm scared about it a little bit" Shriver: "I don't believe in kind of talking behind other people's backs".

"I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home" by Maria Shriver (The Open Field) " Every 66 seconds , another brain will develop Alzheimer's disease, and two-thirds of those brains belong to women," Shriver testified.

She founded the Women's Alzheimer's Movement at the Cleveland Clinic and pushed for a comprehensive plan to fund research into all kinds of women's health issues.