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Follow-up: What breakthrough do you want to see in 2013?


YOLANDE WHITLOCK | Retired | Salinas


A: Upward mobility is still possible in the United States, and I’m a bootstrap example of success.


Call to Heal: I’m in favor of universal healthcare, so to me, that would be a major breakthrough to help the world.


JANET KANSTRUP | Retired | Salinas


A: I zigged instead of zagged.


Forget Me Not: Cure Alzheimer’s. It’s a devastating and cruel disease.


SANDRA ARLEDGE | Wife/Mother I Seaside


A: A happy wife and mother.


Striking Hunger: Poverty. My husband is in the military and everywhere we’ve lived there are people who are homeless or struggling to get the bare essentials. We have to solve that before anything else.