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Dear Joan, Thank you so much for sharing with us your involvement with the Lane Evans Unity Dinner, the article from the Springfield paper and your speech. WOW! Your description of how Parkinson's disease affects our lives and robs us of our personality, assurance and abilities was so accurate that it evoked emotions in me that I normally attempt to keep a lid on. Your analogy of PD as that "voice" that whispers us into submission and induces us into silence portrays the power and control that this disorder wishes to exert over our lives. Public knowledge is needed about this disease and about the true grit and determination it takes daily to defy it. Thank you and Lane Evans and Jan Schakowsky and Jim Langevin and all the many people who are standing up, making their voices heard and leading in the effort to realize a cure for Parkinson's and the many diseases and disabilities that stem cell research has hope of accomplishing. My thoughts will be with you on September second when you and Rep. LaHood visit Dr. Cady's embryonic research lab. I have a feeling that you will find the way to convince Rep. LaHood of the importance of this research to the lives of the many people of Illinois who suffer with disability and disease. Dee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn