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What if hot had to be cold? What if young had to be old? What if shy had to be bold?What if . . . doctors had to be patients? What if a fledgling doc had to get wheeled to the x-ray lab - then wait; sitting in the hall wearing an embarrassing gown with hairy or unshaven legs, as the case may be, peaking out from the too-short hem; feeling his or her exposed skin sticking to the plastic wheelchair seat?
What if . . . all legislators, before voting on funding cuts for public transportation or child care subsidies, had to commute by bus with a squirming toddler: drop her off at child care; rush to make the next bus connection to get to work on time; then reverse the process - rushing to arrive before late pick-up fees kicked-in, to retrieve the now tired, hungry, and squirming child?
What if . . . a parent of an ADD child had to spend a day in her child's body: in and out of the time-out chair or principal's office; getting caught teasing the gerbil instead of doing long-division; carrying home the dreaded note that has to be signed before the next ...