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HARRISBURG â When Republican state Rep. Jim Gregory learned Monday from Gov. Tom Wolf that an administrative error will delay a decision on whether survivors can sue for decades-old sexual abuse, he broke down and sobbed uncontrollably.
âThatâs where I had to leave it with him â to hope he understood the gravity of what this means to victims, to know that we could be so close to achieving something for them that has been decades in wait,â Gregory, a survivor of child sexual abuse, said of his conversation with Wolf. âTo now have to say, again, youâre going to have to wait. I would believe that my emotions mirrored the emotions of other victims.â
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Sandra Huffman was cleaning St. Luke s hospital in Quakertown, gloved and maskless, when she got sick last March. It felt as though a film of spiderwebs had caked her throat, she said. At 54, she was sleeping upright in bed, breathing through a borrowed nebulizer, and drinking an old family remedy of fat Spanish onions congealed in sugar.
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Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians, including Sandra Huffman of East Greenville, Pa., have been struggling to make ends meet in January because of a month-long gap in coronavirus unemployment benefits. JESSICA GRIFFIN / Philadelphia Inquirer
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Sandra Huffman was cleaning St. Luke’s hospital in Quakertown, gloved and maskless, when she got sick last March. It felt as though a film of spiderwebs had caked her throat, she said. At 54, she was sleeping upright in bed, breathing through a borrowed nebulizer, and drinking an old family remedy of fat Spanish onions congealed in sugar.
Some survivors and their advocates believe the quickest way to remedy a Department of State mistake is to abandon the time-consuming path of amending the state constitution and pursue legislation.