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Saving Isaiah
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This story – originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2003 – started as a simple feature about a troubled family. But when the mother began to hear disturbing reports about her son’s treatment in a local psychiatric hospital, I realized I had a much more complicated story. I worked my [...]