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For A Time, Susan And Jeff Hudkins thought they knewwhat they were up against. First in 1997 and again in 2000, their two little boys were diagnosed with very different forms of autism. The parents understood then that their children would spend their early years in ways the Hudkinses had never imagined—emotionally troubled, developmen-tally challenged, veering from treatment to treatment. The Hudkinses' goal was to give the kids as safe and secure a childhood as possible in their Chicago suburb. Then, about two years ago, the world turned over yet again as the Hudkinses began contemplating the future.