Bill resided for decades in a state institution due to the lack of accessible housing and community support. I first heard the phrase “piss on pity” from the former Iowa senator Tom Harken from a speech that he made celebrating the anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act but that was after I knew Bill in the late 1970’s.

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