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Keeping It In The Family

Pasadena Weekly June 11, 2001

Writer Natalie Dunbar approached the proposed Next of Kin legislation through her own deeply personal experience of trying to reach and help her father from thousands of miles away after he suffered a stroke.

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This article captures the Next of Kin effort while the Illinois legislation was still moving through the legislature before anyone knew whether the family's campaign would succeed.
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