Los Angeles Times
December 24, 1998
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The
Dream House
for Jaeger's Kids
Moves Closer
to Delivery
Aspen, Colo.- Happy holidays from Andrea's
kids, who have moved inside on this bone-chilling December evening and taken
over the most exclusive club in town.
They crowd a small hardwood floor and dance - the teenager with
Hodgkin's disease, the little boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the
little girl with one leg.
The strobe lights bounce off a bald head, bruised arms, metal crutches, and 20
smiles as wide as the Rocky Mountains.
Some of these gravely ill kids are recovering, some are not. But on this night,
everyone shines, bouncing and screeching and waving their hands around a
howling former tennis star named Andrea Jaeger.
The song is "Staying Alive."
Thanks in part to generous Southern Californians, so is the mandate.
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