Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
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Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.Patti Davis
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.
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I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
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Acknowledging that the death of a former president of Reagan's stature would be a big unwieldy one -- a world event, ... grab onto the massive grief around us and go home at night to the shape of the grief inside us.
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You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.
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