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i am at home mag, working, just checking mail while stuff runs. i wrote
this. i am glad it struck you as being wonderful.
the mental aspect of disability never occurs to those yocals. they can't
possibly get it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Magenta Raine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 4:13 PM
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Subject: Re: The Before time
Who wrote this? It's wonderful!
> >Mainstream media doesn't tell our stories the way they should be told. I
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> these people think they can spend the night on the street and know what
it
> is like to be homeless, but they don't because they know that tomarrow
night
> they will be warm and comfortable. they think they can roll around for a
> day in a wheelchair or blindfolded and understand what it is like to be
> disabled, but they do not, because they know that tomarrow they will be
> walking, or seeing. part of disability is knowing that you'll not every
play
> 3rd base the way your brother does, that you'll never be on a highschool
> team, you can't even serve your country in the service. you know that 90
%
> of the opposite sex would not even thing about dating you, even those
that
> are your friends would not ever consider you in a "dating way."
> part of being disabled is knowing that tomarrow will be the same, the
next
> day, the day after that and on and on you are going to be disabled, then
you
> get old a find that it gets worse.
> how can anyone tell our story
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