“There are these endless barriers put up against all of the normal life milestones that non-disabled people, people that don’t need help with their activities of daily living, just take for granted.”

The Monument Quilt is a collection of nearly 3,000 stories of survival of sexual violence that were written, stitched, and painted onto four-by-four-foot squares.

“I think a lot of adults probably felt similarly, but held themselves together a bit more.”

The discovery that the hotel didn’t meet all its conditions for the abatement has set up something of a showdown.

The annual parade is expected to bring thousands of visitors to the region for its fifteenth year.

“There’s this federal agency with no connection to D.C. which is denying people parole right and left”

No one has been ticketed for it yet.

But a number of unresolved budgetary and design concerns may make the reopening of the M Street gate a lengthy process.

“No one has to pay anything to ride through the streets of D.C. and look spectacular for a day.”