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“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands”: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life of Federal Service, and His Fears and Hopes for the Future

Mad in America

My mom, who I consider the heroine in my life, was someone who was state- hospitalized multiple times during her life. She went on to raise four kids by herself, got a graduate degree in philosophy, taught for many years in the local community college, and became a nationally published poet. Folks weren’t happy about that.