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December 22, 2008

Lisa Hawk patiently tries to corral son Aiden, 5, back to business, drawing clowns from geometric shapes at his home-school worktable. But there are people in the house — big, big excitement. His bare feet skitter across hardwood floors as he runs room to room, showing off his prized dominoes and Thomas the Tank Engine trains. Then he throws himself across the front door and pleads with grown-up visitors to stay and play. His mother knows he gets bored and lonely at home, even though she brings in playmates as often as she can. It breaks her heart to watch the carefree children at her St. Petersburg neighborhood school, knowing Aiden will never join them. "I would love for him to be able to go to school and play with the other kids," Hawk says. "But for someone with allergies, a peanut in the classroom is like a loaded gun." ...more

October 28, 2007

She was named Melissa after "sweet Melissa" in the Allman Brothers Band song. Just as the Melissa in the song casts a spell, Tarpon Springs resident Trish McGuire's Melissa also has cast a spell – over the life of McGuire, Melissa's mother. Over the years, the spell has changed moods. It started with the joy of motherhood and took an abrupt jump with Melissa's suicide at age 22. ...more

September 15, 2007