It takes a fairly long period of time to get someone to normalize their eating and get them back to stable mental and physical health.

It's amazing to me the number of people who will hold onto my card for months and months and months before calling me.

It's very socially acceptable to be disordered in your eating. People don't realize the true danger behind it.

It's just time to do that.

We asked the state that the funding be adequate and on time, and they've managed to do that. But we also need the funding to be predictable and sustainable, and we always worry until they establish a formula and commit themselves to supporting it that there are going to be surprises from year to year.

Biologically, it's time to remove them as an endangered species. From our standpoint, they haven't been endangered since 1999.