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A Yizkor Sermon: "Therefore, Choose Life"
Rabbi Jeffrey Gale, The Suburban Temple, Wantaugh, New York
More and more these days, I find myself thinking about a particular childhood acquaintance who was afflicted with Canavan's Disease. Many people at the time thought it was a severe case of Cerebral Palsy. Sarah (not her real name) wore leg braces, never learned to walk or talk, and had to be carried everywhere. Her parents eventually put her in a special home and she died at the age of eleven.
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