----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty Alfred" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: What Village? (was Surrogate grandparents)
> >
> It sounds like your folks were great Steve.  I know they loved their
spitfire
> kid too.

Thanks Betty.  He loved them too.  Through all the bedside vigils.  And even
now through all the mystery.
>
> I'm not even sure what I mean when I say village.  Neighbors, educators,
> etc.?  All of it, I guess.

Comes down to making life work, sometimes even a little better than
yesterday.

S.