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"Mentally Disabled Take Charge Of Their Lives"
December 14, 2005

GEORGETOWN, DELAWARE--The following five paragraphs are excerpts from a story in Sunday's News Journal:

Karen Deery was a little girl -- about 6 years old or so -- when she was sent to the Hospital for the Mentally Retarded at Stockley, as the state-run Stockley Center near Georgetown was known more than 50 years ago.

She doesn't really want to think about living there if she doesn't have to.

"I didn't like it, put it that way," said Deery, now 58.

She loves where she lives now -- her own apartment near Prices Corner, where she shares life with two yellow birds, Sunshine and Angel, and enjoys her own kind of freedom.

"I'm the boss," she said from her rocking chair in the living room of her tidy one-bedroom apartment. "I can do what I want when I want. I can cook my own dinner. I can take my shoes off. And I can talk on the phone with my friends."

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"Mentally disabled take charge of their lives" (The News Journal)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/1214a.htm

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