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Heads, You Win!

Creator: Gini Laurie (author)
Date: 1959
Publication: Toomeyville Jr. Gazette
Source: Gazette International Networking Institute


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Sometimes, when I am digging in the garden, or walking in the woods, I feel a sadness because my respiratory friends cannot participate.

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Then I cure these thoughts with my memory of volunteer work at a mental hospital and recall the excessive mobility in the disturbed wards.

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How different is the emotional climate of respiratory polio people. Their living has been filtered of much of the fluff and the best of humanness remains.

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My gentle, perceptive, fun-loving respiratory friends recall Ecclesiastes: "Wisdom is better than strength." Because they still have their heads, these breathless characters relax, enjoy life and add depth to the lives of others.

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ED NOTE: We have coined a new word to describe us -- "Respos"

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