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and listener. The audience was really engaged and attentive, and
many became emotional themselves.
The final speaker rose to speak. This leader spoke about her
daughter and a turning point in her daughter’s childhood that
had occurred about ten or twelve years ago. She was coming
out of a store after shopping and holding her daughter’s hand.
Suddenly, she heard a loud, screeching noise. She looked around
trying to locate the source of the noise—until she realized it was
coming from her own daughter. She spoke about all the spe-
cialists they consulted, about how her daughter had all kinds
of different types of therapies to try to help the situation, and
eventually she talked about having to institutionalize ...