Gabrielle Giffords, the U.S. Representative who was shot in Tuscon, went home recently. It’s a heart-wrenching story, and all of us wish we could wave a magic wand and restore her to her previous level of vitality. However, once again the press took an opportunity to take an individual’s circumstance and...
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We have a family friend who’s a 91-year-old feisty woman proud of her independence. She’s lived in the same house alone for five decades, many of them with only her canine companion. Her husband died decades ago and she never remarried. She has little medical history to speak of, but she...
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