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Ginny was hearing mixed messages: on the one hand, Hilary's sixth-grade teacher, Michael Sanderson, called home with glowing reports about her latest perfect test score. But friends and relatives were becoming increasingly worried. Why did Hilary avert her eyes every time the subject of her father came up? What was behind the cheery facade? Why did she never ask why? Ginny scheduled several appointments with a psychiatrist, Gail McVey. She and Hilary talked mostly about books--Hilary and Ginny read one or two a week--and about memories of her father. After four visits, McVey gave Hilary...
...tightened her braces. Ginny was slender to begin with from years of power walking, but now the weight was melting off her twiggy body. By December she had lost 29 lbs. In hopes that humor might defuse some of the pain, friends started calling her the "Incredible Shrinking Woman." Sanderson took a somewhat sterner approach. He paid a call one day during lunch and sat on the porch with Ginny. "You're just wasting away," he told her. "You have to take better care of yourself...
...gathered for its 22nd annual buffet dinner to reward young athletes. The affair holds little suspense--all the players get a certificate in every sport in which they compete--but Hilary was nonetheless excited and asked Ginny if she could wear a smudge of her glittery pink lip gloss. Sanderson, who also coaches Hilary's basketball team, took the stage and nervously riffled through a stack of note cards. He started off by talking about Lisa Beamer and the crash of Flight 93. Then he said, "Those passengers taught us all something about victory... And this season, you girls have...
...children may have finally learned from this devastating experience that America's true heroes are not rock stars and athletes. KELLEY SANDERSON Colorado Springs, Colo...
...losing a close match to No. 7 Matt Acevedo and scoring a 6-5 win againsr Oklahoma's Will Durden in the 133-pound class. Sophomore Max Odom lost close decisions to two of the top-ranked 157-pounders, second-ranked Bryan Snyder of Nebraska and fifth-ranked Cole Sanderson of Iowa State...