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THE FACE OF PHILANTHROPY
The Gift of Time
By Caroline Preston
In the months before her son Andre's death from a brain tumor, Valerie Sobel spent 20 hours a day by his bedside trying to comfort him. But few of the other parents of ailing children Ms. Sobel met could afford to do the same, burdened as they were by work and financial pressures.
In 2000, five years after her son died, Ms. Sobel created the...