This time Grandma and Grandpa got to come too. We were invited out to Los Angeles by Athletes and Entertainers for Kids. This is a non-profit group of sports stars and various entertainers, who work with kids who are very ill or who might drop out of school and join gangs. For instance, Howie Long, from the Los Angeles Raiders, heads up Howie’s Heros, a program which sends celebrities to visit kids in hospitals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who scored more points than any other basketball star ever when he was playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, heads up Kareem’s Kids, to keep kids in school and off the streets. Now Athletes and Entertainers for Kids was launching a new program that they were going to call the Ryan White National Educational Program. It sent teams of celebrities and AIDS experts into schools to talk to kids—so there would be no more Ryan White stories. Sounded good to me. They wanted me to be at the press conference that would launch the Fund.
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