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To kick off a new year, Mouth launched a campaign to Expect the Respect. Let's all counteract the way people hide their disability or apologize for having it. (We'll never get anywhere doing that.)

So: Expect the Respect! We'd like to see that idea spread.

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A note from the editor: I miss Ed Roberts. Since he passed, there's nobody I can call late at night to get a party of a conversation. The Ed Zone, Billy Golfus called it. That zone was a reliable, portable upper. Ed was a seriously truthful guy, and laughing all the way.

For the articles which follow, I took huge editorial liberties: ransacking a number of sources, shown below, picking them apart to weave a conversation.

Although he may never have said it all in one day, every word and every sentence is Ed's; none is taken out of context.

Ed knew I'd never misquote him anyhow. After the first article where he was my subject, he didn't bother to fact-check the ones that followed.

Many of us wish he were here. I hope this conversation brings him close enough so that some new friends hear his voice. -

Lucy Gwin

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Part One:
How to Live Longer

Part Two: The Tao of Ed
from his talks and interviews

Part Three:
Our Man on the Moon

Part Four:
Independent Living, Born on Campus
the origins and the purpose of Independent Living,
as told by Ed Roberts

Sources: interviews with Ed for Mouth and New Mobility by Lucy Gwin; Timothy Pfaff's profile for California Monthly; interviews by Susan O'Hara for the Bancroft Library; Jon Oda's transcript of an Ed speech; and finally, most importantly, a video of Ed's talk to the very first Partners in Policymaking weekend. Get in the Ed Zone on the web site of the Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities. www.mncdd.org/parallels2/one/video/ed_roberts-pipm.html