On Oct. 29, local musician Sam Laubach went live on Facebook with an hour-long performance to benefit cancer research in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Her housemate, Michael Lazarow, joined her, and the two created a harmonious duo.
“I’ve decided to end October with a livestream benefit concert in my mom’s name, Susan Dress Laubach,” she said in a last-minute Facebook announcement. “I actually went to go donate myself, and I thought, ‘You know what? I can probably turn this $100 into something more,’” she elaborated in an interview.
“I watched my mom battle metastatic breast cancer from 2004 until her death in 2012. Although she knew her diagnosis was terminal, she fooled everyone around her into believing she was healthy as can be.
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