title: Gifts.
abstract: Born with tuberous sclerosis, Deborah never learned to speak and lived in a group home for the last 25 years of her life. After she died of cancer, her physician sister discovered, from the people whose lives she'd touched, the ways in which Deborah had been a gift.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reisman
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology; D014402:Tuberous Sclerosis / Q000523:psychology*