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With few advocates, schizophrenics continue to suffer in the shadows.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: With few advocates, schizophrenics continue to suffer in the shadows.(Health)(Small acts of compassion had begun to turn life around for Suzanne Fontana; most are not so lucky)

Article Excerpt
Byline: The Register-Guard

Small, focused acts of practical compassion.

That's what made the difference for Suzanne Fontana in the final years of her life. Homeless, delusional, dirty and cold, she showed up under a large cedar tree in Majeska Seese-Green's yard one night in 2003, babbling nonsensically.

"She was just this tiny little thing, and she demanded to know who I was, as though she was protecting my house from intruders," Seese-Green recalled.

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