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sometimes more.
”
This was not Harve’
s first 
brush with adversity. His 
first wife, Susie, was killed by 
her brother, who had mental 
health problems, in 2000. 
Harve and Judy married in 
2006.
The Disners had hoped to 
celebrate their anniversary 
Sept. 4 by enjoying dinner 
together, but the rehab facility 
would not permit it. So, Judy 
brought flowers and set up a 
folding table outside Harve’
s 
window, where she ate her 
meal while he ate his in his 
room.

WELCOMING HOME 
Finally, on Oct. 22, Harve was 
able to come home. Neighbors 
welcomed him with a colorful 
chalk drawing on his driveway.

An aide is with him eight 
hours a day, to help with activ-
ities of daily living, and physi-
cal and occupational therapists 
and nurses make frequent 
visits. 
He still tires easily and 
needs a walker to move about, 
but he’
s working hard to be 
able to walk on his own.
Though he is still very weak, 
Harve is once again managing 
his one-man business, Detroit 
Auto Brokers, by phone from 
home rather than from his 
Southfield office. But he’
s cut-
ting back on the number of 
hours he works, one of many 
lifestyle changes he’
s made. 
He says he is determined 
to be healthier. “I have been 
given a huge gift of life,
” he 
said. “I want to make good use 
of it.
” 

Harve and Judy at home this 

October. INSET: Harve and Judy 

enjoying their anniversary dinner, 

on opposite sides of a window.

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