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Read a dramatization of the Mueller Report

• AIDS Is a Preventable Disease
• Anne (Autism)
• As My Debt Grows, So My Love Does, Too (Depression)
• As Though I Were Just Flowing, Flowing (Alzheimer's)
• Aunt Louise (Mental Illness)
• Breanna (Rhett Syndrome)
• Cherrie (Organ Donation)
• Debbie (Organ Donation)
• Diabetes Tells Us We're Machines
• Death Rides with Us on Our Ecstasy
• Eighty-Eight
• Fractures Rarely Heal Right on Their Own
• Give Your Pain a Bit of Gratitude (Get Well)
• Given the Fragility of Life (Get Well)
• Grace Comes with a Patina of Pain (Get Well)
• Hallelujah! I'm Pregnant! Praise the Lord! (Artificial Insemination)
• I Want to Live (Multiple Sclerosis)
• I Pray for You and Wish I Could Do More
• Let Others Speak of Hell -- I Speak of Courage
• Mental Illness Doesn't Touch the Soul
• O Lord, Help Me Be a Burden
• So May a Tiny, Clever Enemy
• Some Find It Quite Sufficient to Endure
• Some Find Their Identity in Courage
• Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
• Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (2) (Spinal Muscular Atrophy)
• Thank You for Having Faith in Me (Mania)
• Thank You for the Heart Your Loved One Gave Me
• The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane
• The Gift of Life Is Never More or Less (Terminal Illness)
• There's Beauty in the Barest Breath of Sunshine (Depression)
• Thirty-Eight Is Running for Her Life
• What Can I Do to Keep You from Despair
• When Life Becomes a Sea of Pain
• Your Legacy Must Be Both Love and Fear (Breast Cancer)

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