I think that was great that someone made that magnificent gesture 
with the camera. Giving is a good value for sure. Perhaps I was wrong 
to be offended. Maybe we are always wrong to be offended. We are all 
just doing the best we can under difficult circumstances. I won't 
tell Case anything though as I did not let him know my feeling and so 
many adults tell him so many things, I think it is ok to let him 
figure this one out for himself. He is a kid with an incredible sense 
of fairness who never taunts or teases others even when they do so to 
him. I have been a little distraught watching this lately.

At 10:05 AM 3/14/2006, you wrote:
>I don't know about that Linda, I was in Kansas City for three years, getting
>my graduate degree, and was interested in getting a 35mm auto-focus SLR
>camera.  For those who don't know, SLR's were manually focused up until 1985
>when Minolta came out with their line of Maxxum Cameras.   I was interested
>in getting one of their cameras, so I went to Dolgins, a store like Target
>in Kansas City, to look at one. I ended up putting one on layaway, and
>paying a third down.  When I went back to pay the remaining 2 thirds of the
>layaway, the clerk told me the camera was mine, free and clear.  The person
>behind me in line had paid up the bill for me.  That was a $600 camera, and
>to this day I don't know who my benefactor was.  Do you think I felt
>offended?   I felt grateful.
>
>You can tell Case to decline money, as I do now, but older people come from
>a time where if people had anything to share, they shared it with those who
>were less fortunate.  People are funny, thoough.  I'm not sure what the
>woman would've done had he declined the dollar graciously.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Linda Walker
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>Subject: Re: New to list - intensive suit therapy - hand surgery?
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>
>          Talk about offensive  - a woman on the street saw Case
>walking and gave him a dollar asking what happened to him. He just
>looks at her and says I have cp and I was born this way. He is too
>young to be offended by that but I was.