ABSTRACT
"Kim's Brave Journey": ... At 11:31 A.M. on Sept. 24, Amtrak's Silver Meteor pulled into Florida's Okeechobee station, just one of 30 stops on the train's daily run between Miami and New York City. Yet for one passenger boarding at Okeechobee, this was not just a train trip; it was a pilgrimage. As Kimberly Bergalis settled painfully into her tiny compartment, she was beginning an odyssey that some believe she had literally been living for.
