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I can hear her saying to him, "Listen, there is no time to argue about this and they are waiting to see you." She returns to reception and beckons us all to come in and join them. "This cannot be done", says Hans the Dutch psychiatrist, now almost apopleptic, and with aplomb Stella leads us to an empty meeting room where we all enter and sit down at the long table. "And where is the case manager?" "Right here", says a spritely young man of not much more than thirty, a smile lighting his nimble and rather handsome face. The psychiatrist looks at him, appealing. "it's okay, Hans, they are all here to support Chris." "But are they his family?" "We'd might as well be", says Carl. "And what does Christopher say?" "If they leave, I leave."