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-- [ From: Seymour Gross * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] -- Hilary, Your participation, and the treatment of Parkinson's by PBS was terrific . Thanks a million. Following is an excerpt of a letter sent to PBS. "In further thinking about the program presented last night, it occurs to us that Hilary Blue may not be able to play football with her children, but she can certainly impart to them values that will matter to them all their lives. The social service (the name appears to be an oxymoron) agencies did a great injustice to her, and to her children by removing them from her, and therefore their home. The money and hours spent by bureaucratic agencies depriving Hilary Blue and her children, and others who haven't received this publicity, of the support systems they have developed to accommodate their own unique physical and emotional needs would have been better spent helping to provide the means, eg. caregiving assistance, by which families and individuals would continue to live in their own homes surrounded by their own families and friends. "Perhaps PBS will see fit to report on this subject in the near future. Again, thank you very, very much for a wonderful piece on Parkinson's and its human costs." Dolores Gross