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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, February 1, 1993                   TAG: 9302010265
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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PUT HOLIDAY ISSUE IN PERSPECTIVE

ON THE ISSUE of what we should call Christmas vacation/winter break:

If the large crowds of people who showed up for the meetings in Montgomery County would show up with this kind of concern for their children who might commit suicide, we may have a change for survivors.

If people showed this kind of concern for their kids on what is going on with them in their daily lives and be there for them, this heartbreaking cry for help would not occur. Who cares what you call Christmas, if kids are too unhappy to want to live to see tomorrow?

PHYLLIS NICHOLSON\ ROANOKE

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