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...homeowners in bankruptcy. One is James Villa, a 42-year-old onetime stockbroker who lives in a $1.4 million home in Boca Raton, Fla. The other is Allen Smith, a 73-year-old retired autoworker with throat cancer who lives in a deteriorating $80,000 home in Wilmington...
...contrast, 1,100 miles to the north, in Wilmington, Del., 73-year-old Allen Smith is about to lose his home in bankruptcy court. Smith was born in Birmingham, Ala., and served in the Coast Guard during World War II. After his discharge in 1945, he attended an auto-mechanics school in Detroit and then went to work as a metal finisher and body repairman for Chrysler. The company transferred him to its Delaware plant in 1959, where he worked until he was forced out after 35 years during one of the automaker's downsizings...
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Whatever you do, don't let embarrassment stand in the way of your health. When Brenda Billingsley of Wilmington, Del., developed abdominal pains two years ago at age 48, she told her doctors about most of her symptoms. But she never talked about the way her stools had changed shape (and she wasn't asked). The pains must be menopause, the doctors decided. Then a year ago, during a flexible sigmoidoscopy, a physician discovered a tumor the size of a golf ball that had begun to spread. Aggressive treatment seems to have left Billingsley cancer free...
...Kelsos apparently lost it. The day after Christmas, they left their home in the Philadelphia suburb of Exton, Pa., and took Steven in his wheelchair, with his toys, diapers and medical supplies, to the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in nearby Wilmington, Del. They demanded that Steven, a frequent patient there for years, be admitted, and then, while the receptionist went to get a nurse, the two drove off, leaving their son behind with a note saying they could no longer care...