Will California gut a medical aid program created in an age of compassionate care?
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Daphne Dunstan is the first one up in her Benicia, California, apartment. She knows her son William will wake soon, and she’ll need to help him get dressed, prepare breakfast and be ready for when the bus comes by to pick him up. Soon after he leaves, Dunstan rouses William’s younger brother, Edward — “Not a morning person,” she notes with a chuckle — and the routine begins again…