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=== Retirement === In 2011, Ronstadt was interviewed by the ''[[Arizona Daily Star]]'' and announced her retirement.<ref name="retirement">{{Cite news |last=Burch |first=Cathalena E. |date=April 22, 2011 |title=Ronstadt: Legacy 'Belongs 100 Percent to Nelson' |url=http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/blogs/caliente-tuned-in/ronstadt-legacy-belongs-percent-to-nelson/article_17e2d7b2-6ca0-11e0-b37e-001cc4c002e0.html |url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130722141521/http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/blogs/caliente-tuned-in/ronstadt-legacy-belongs-percent-to-nelson/article_17e2d7b2-6ca0-11e0-b37e-001cc4c002e0.html |archive-date=July 22, 2013 |access-date=January 12, 2025|newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]]}}</ref> In August 2013, she revealed to [[Alanna Nash]], writing for [[AARP]], that she had [[Parkinson's disease]] and could "no longer sing a note."<ref>[[Brian Mansfield|Mansfield, Brian]] (August 23, 2013). [https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/08/23/linda-ronstadt-parkinsons-disease/2694053 "Linda Ronstadt has Parkinson's Disease{{snds}}The Grammy-Winning Singer Revealed Her Condition to AARP Friday"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818215454/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/08/23/linda-ronstadt-parkinsons-disease/2694053/ |date=August 18, 2017}}. ''[[USA Today]]''. Retrieved September 4, 2013.</ref> Her diagnosis was subsequently re-evaluated as [[progressive supranuclear palsy]].<ref name="mccarthy1" /> Her memoir ''Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands'' was published in 2022.<ref name="memoir">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/singer-linda-ronstadt-reflects-on-her-roots-in-new-book |publisher=[[PBS]] |language=en-US |date=October 5, 2022 |access-date=October 5, 2022 |work=[[PBS NewsHour]] |last1=Brown |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Jackson |first2=Lena I. |title=Singer Linda Ronstadt reflects on her roots in new book |archive-date=October 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006010859/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/singer-linda-ronstadt-reflects-on-her-roots-in-new-book |url-status=live}}</ref>
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