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It snowed on Sunday the 12th of Feb. Today, Valentine's Day, there was still snow and ice piled up on every curb cut in town...left there when the snow plows went by on Sun. Donna had to drive her wheelchair in the road, and when we wanted to go on the sidewalk so we could go to Dunkin Donuts, I had to remove as much snow as possible with my foot, and then push her chair with all my strength or she would have been stuck there at the curb with her wheels spinning, going nowhere. This is two days after a snow of about four or five inches! She was very angry to say the least. What if she was alone? She would have had to turn around and go home...another day wasted like so many before. I can understand now why she had so much anger when I first met her. These kind of incidents happend probably several times a week...for most of her adult life. To add insult to injury, when she tried to go to the gift store at the hospital where we went to do her banking, she couldn't get in. The entrance was too narrow with all the Valentine's Day displays blocking the way for her wheelchair to get by. Isn't this illegal? We were both understandably very p.o.'d!