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A Home from the Battlefield---The VA Medical Center in Spokane is framed by a fence at the Fort George Wright Cemetery several miles away. Veterans hospitals across the country have been accused of mistreating patients. This hospital has endured…

Tim Tullis stops to take note of a gray-winged trumpeter during a Ross Center visit to the National Aviary on the North Side. Sister Jeanne Hildenbrand says the center emphasizes such outings to expose clients to 'different worlds.'

Although Tim continues to improve with a new family and altered routine, unfamiliar settings still upset him. During a trip to buy new clothes, anxiety overtakes him.

Among her children, Marianne Badaczewski believes that Madeline, 6, has the closest relationship with Tim. Here she helps him say grace before dinner.

After hours of pleading, 'Go see Daddy,' Tim Tullis sits with Marianne Badaczewski, the first night he spends away from his father and their apartment. She tries to convince him he will be safe in her home. 'We are going to take care of you,' the…

Shorty after Tim Tullis' father became ill, he began living at the Badaczewski home. Seven weeks after Tullis moved in his father, Donald, died of liver cancer. As Marianne Badaczewski drives Tim to the cemetery Tim repeatedly says on word, 'Daddy.'…

Quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes, Donald Tullis - Cleary exhausted on this chilly March night- says 'I'm the last leaf on the tree.' The youngest- and only living - of 10 children, he soon will be diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer.

Donald, left, and Tim Tullis eat dinner separately because the kitchen table in their apartment is too small for both of them to sit down together.

Donald Tullis washes his clothes in his tub because he doesn't have a washer and dryer in his North Side apartment. Tullis says he doesn't like to go to the laundry because it takes up too much time and money. He also,worries if it is too busy he…

As part of their daily routine, donald Tullis shaves himself before using the electric razor on Tim. Faterh and son rested on the weekends, however and by Sunday night, 'We were pretty shaggy,' Donald Tullis said.