Abuse & violence

Wynona Ward, a former truck driver from Vermont, used the pain of her past to chart a new course in healing--for herself and hundreds of other women:

Wynona Ward drives her Ford Explorer, an "office on wheels," for thousands of miles over Vermont back roads each year, to reach even the most geographically isolated families suffering from domestic abuse.

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Ter, 06/23/2009 - 12:58

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