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Meet Beverly Davis

How does one person’s illness affect a family, a community and a society? What toll does it take on a mother? On her young children, their health and their chances for success? See how Beverly Davis, a former member of the U.S. Army and a single mother of two young children, strives to cope and live a successful, healthy life while suffering from a debilitating intestinal disease. Read the whole story

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    Abang Ojullu remembers all too vividly the day she put her eldest daughter on a small ambulance jet bound for Sioux Falls. The child’s asthma attack was too severe for doctors in rural Worthington, Minn. to treat. Meet Abang Ojullu

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