August 17, 2006

The Gift of Time

By Caroline Preston
The Face of Philanthropy
Photograph by Michael Ventura, for The Chronicle

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

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