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Hotel Lobbies

Hotel room:$129/night Flight: $210 Registration:$320 Clamor of voices: Priceless That old VISA advertisement often comes to mind as I watch the beginning of a FRIENDS conference. Looking back on the weekend, I treasure the picture of young adults and teens hanging out...

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The Tabrizi Family

I wish we had known about Friends years ago. During the 1st night of the Friends conference I watched my daughter, who rarely spoke to anyone other than her family, speak in a microphone to a room full of people she didn’t know.

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Explaining

by Lee Ann Kincade I am blessed to have two beautiful and healthy sons. My oldest, Jonathan, is nine and from my first marriage. The youngest is James, four, and from my present marriage. Both are very normal boys in most respects: love to ride bikes, love chocolate...

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What Teens Asked Young Adults Who Stutter:

Have people ever made fun of you? Has stuttering stopped you from doing something you enjoyed? What is the population of Americans that stutter? Do you stutter more or less when you are nervous? What do you think stuttering is? When did you start stuttering? Do you...

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Wake Me Up Inside

by David Friedman Last year, back in Secaucus, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. At age 33, it was my first experience with the stuttering community. I felt so out of place even though I stuttered all my life. The Friends conference in 2003 put me in a...

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