"There's a give-and-take between these two generations that is missing when middle-aged people are inserted into the equation. We take things so seriously and those two groups don't. When a student shows up with purple hair and a Grateful Dead T-shirt, our inclination is to send him home, but the residents get a kick out of it." - Kathy Newman
Kathy's the leader of a program which connects at-risk youth in elementary school with senior citizens. What infects us between childhood and our golden years... responsibility? A sense that we are called to be perfect or highly significant, more so than a view from the heavens would ever suggest?
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