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By     |    Sep 12, 2014
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“How to Make Great Friends” a poem

How to Make Great Friends by Sara Ann Kronrot If you want a friend, you need to be a cheery, happy person and like everybody. You need to have a heart full of love, joy, and the smell of cookies. When you are a friend, you need lots of Kleenex to dry tears. When you are a friend you know how to give a hug. When you are a friend, […]

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“Go Back. Make Tracks.” A 12 Days of Christmas Poem
By     |    Jan 2, 2014
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“Go Back. Make Tracks.” A 12 Days of Christmas Poem

Here’s some nice news…we actually got to have Christmas at home! Oh joy…it was very simple but it was together , sweet and homey. (Much preferred to hospitally!) Sara Ann enjoyed her little tree in her room . It started out with just pine cone decor and gradually morphed into a real little handsomely dressed Christmas tree. and her favorite gifts were two international dolls I found at the wonderful Good […]

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Little Victory…W-H-A-L-E

Little Victory…W-H-A-L-E

Little victory at the hospital this week. Yes Sara was in the hospital YET again…admission #132….another respiratory virus. So here is what happened. The occupational therapist came by to work with her. She’d heard that she could write hand over hand. I think few believe here that she can really write. So Sara wrote with her (not me) a little drawing of a whale. I said Sara tell her what […]

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Climbing Out of the “Wall” like Helen Keller
By     |    Feb 21, 2013
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Climbing Out of the “Wall” like Helen Keller

So here is a really beautiful thing that happend last week. Sara Ann and I were listening to this NPR show about a young madly in love couple. The segment was called “Finding Emilie”http://www.radiolab.org/story/110206-finding-emilie/ The girl got in a bike accident and had a severe brain injury resulting in coma and when she revived, loss of memory, sight and hearing. The docs wanted to put her away becsue she couldn’t […]

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“Through the Eyes of a Child” and article by Hal Gieseking
By     |    Aug 22, 2012
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“Through the Eyes of a Child” and article by Hal Gieseking

    We met Hal Geiseking in the Philadelphia Museum of Art on May 3rd when Sara Ann’s God parents insisted that she see the Van Gogh collection. She was taken by the first large painting called Sunflowers. I put on her glasses and held her head so she could look up to see the painting. She studied it an unusually long time. She really didn’t want to leave it […]

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Sara Update 55
By     |    Dec 31, 2011
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Sara Update 55

Sara Update 55 Blessings of the Season August 2011 Happy Holidays All! I know this is a bit late but I thought you still might like reading about Sara’s progress this year. We hope you will consider being one of Sara’s 1000 angels. To receive a tax write-off send your contribution to Friends of Sara PO Box 172 Collingswood, NJ 08108 and make the check payable to Collingswood Cares/Sara Fund. […]

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Sara Update 54
By     |    Oct 12, 2011
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Sara Update 54

Sara Update 54 July 2011 HAPPY Stuff – a Break through Month The Pen Pal The month of July was a break through month for us…..breaking out of a long heavy dark cloud into a new world. (It’s been unbelievably rough with little to no nursing since January.) But the positive changes really began at the end of June, when Sara Ann’s teacher Danielle, suggested that Sara have a Pen […]

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Sara Update 53
By     |    Jan 17, 2011
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Sara Update 53

January 17, 2010 Hi Guys and Gals, Well the drama continues to unfold…   Call from the case worker Wednesday January 4th Hugh received a call from our health insurance case worker. She noticed that there was a change in the amount of nursing coverage we are to receive. Under the new plans created because of the Obama health rulings, Blue Cross is now only offering 360 hours of nursing […]

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Sara Update 52
By     |    Jan 17, 2011
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Sara Update 52

Sara Update 52 Christmas 2010 and New Years 2011 Hello All, Thanks! Bless you all and thank you for your continued support, interest in our story and Sara Ann’s progress. Our holiday was very different this year….everything seemed to happen early beginning with a tea party Nov. 30th and concert at Tambussi Dance Studio on Dec. 10th. I even got the shopping and wrapping done early which is really unusual […]

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