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Volume 352:6-8 January 6, 2005 Number 1
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Shifting Sands
Perri Klass, M.D.

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For drama's sake, this story should start, "It was the coldest night of the year in Boston." Poetic license aside, it was a frigid January night, and I decided to splurge on the overpriced parking right near Symphony Hall. Now, I am not usually the symphony-goer in my family; I am the parent who stays home with the kids so their father can enjoy his single Boston Symphony Orchestra subscription. This was a special treat: we had a babysitter, and Larry and I were meeting at Symphony Hall.

But my mind was not on music. I was in the middle . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Klass is associate professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, and the medical director of Reach Out and Read.




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