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...summer of 1964, a willowy but pregnant 20-year-old singer named Joan Anderson arrived in Toronto from her native province of Saskatchewan to face a painful decision. Penniless and afraid to tell her parents, she gave birth as a charity patient at a local hospital to a blue-eyed baby girl she named Kelly Dale. The father, a student who had accompanied her to Toronto, was out of the picture, so Joni hastily married folk singer Chuck Mitchell, hoping to make a home for her baby. "I kept trying to find some kind of circumstance where I could stay...
...happy childhood in a middle-class Toronto suburb, began her search in 1992, after her parents, both teachers, told her she was adopted. Asked in an interview with Toronto's City TV why they waited so long, Kilauren said, "Because they loved me. They wanted me to be comfortable." Pregnant with her own child, she filed an application with a public agency to find out who her birth mother was. Then she waited. And waited. Finally, this January she received a brief "nonidentifying" description of her mother. She was a folk singer born in the prairie town of Saskatoon...
...rolled into one. The reason: many women are unhappy with the options mainstream medicine has to offer. For younger women in perimenopause, gynecologists sometimes prescribe low-dose birth-control pills to even out hormone levels. And as full menopause draws nearer, physicians typically prescribe Premarin, an estrogen derived from pregnant mares' urine. But while the benefits of Premarin are considerable--among other things, it may reduce the risk of heart disease and osteoporosis--there are potential dangers. Women who take Premarin for many years can increase their chance of developing breast cancer (see box for the latest research...
...each of us has to find a gay person to love. By that standard, what would it take for a conservative to embrace the assault-weapon ban--mayhem at Starbucks? For expanded health insurance--a sister unable to get cancer treatment? For abortion rights--a daughter who's pregnant...
...worst cases on record of a person knowingly transmitting the AIDS virus, 13 women McGee had sex with have tested HIV-positive. Some are pregnant. At least one has given birth to an infected infant. State public health officials, who are trying to track down and notify his sex partners, expect the tally to climb as more women come forward to be tested...