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In a game of life or death, the seniors at Pondside Manor risk it all.With help from Pondside Manor's quirky, twentysomething "kitchen boy" Foster Kresowik, wheelchair-bound resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the rest home's residents by allowing them to virtually relive blissful moments from days long past--or even create new ones.One-legged Duane Lotspeich is overjoyed when he can once again dance the tango. Thrilled octogenarian Laverne Slotnick cheers on her favorite baseball team from the stands at Candlestick Park with her beloved husband--who died years ago. Even the rest home's overwhelmed head administrator escapes her exhausting job by logging onto a much more luxurious virtual world.