Kitty Dukakis, the former first lady of Massachusetts, died last week at age 88. In 2016 I photographed her, and husband former governor and Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, at their home in Brookline, Mass., for a New York Times story about electroconvulsive therapy (formerly known as electroshock therapy). Kitty said that the treatment was instrumental in her overcoming alcoholism and had become an evangelist for the procedure. I visited one of the weekly ECT support groups that the couple held at their home and we joked about the turkey carcasses that Michael famously collected from friends every year after Thanksgiving to make broth. One of the portraits I took was in the NYT obituary published in Sunday's print edition.
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