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Behind Laura Bush's Car Crash

The former first lady's memoir is hitting bookstores. Ann Louise Bardach talked to her old neighbors about 17-year-old Laura’s grief-stricken seclusion and the breach with the family who lost a son.

A. L. Bardach

Published May 2 2010 7:02PM EDT

articles/2010/05/02/behind-laura-bushs-car-crash/bardach-laura-bush_97773_ebz6sj — Laura Bush (Welch), Senior Year 1964, Robert E. Lee High School, Midland, TX (Seth Poppel / Yearbook Libary)

A. L. Bardach

A. L. Bardach

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