I did what most writers do when something happens that`s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn`t know what else to do about it except write about it.
Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.
Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
I did what most writers do when something happens that`s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn`t know what else to do about it except write about it.
