Thread by Westlander with thanks to BykrBayb and FV for the tip.
For almost 60 years, Dianne Odell lived inside a 7-foot-long metal tube, unable to breathe outside it but determined not to let it destroy her spirit............
Woman dies after life spent in iron lung
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SPRINGFIELD - The state's newly appointed child advocate, Gail Garinger, is scheduled to attend the opening session of a two-day child safety conference at Western New England College this morning.
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Garinger also said she believes the highly publicized case of Haleigh Poutre, the Westfield teen-ager who was the victim of child abuse, "was one of the factors that played in" to the creation of the child advocate position.
Poutre, 14, was hospitalized in September 2005. She was in a comatose state with severe brain injury. She began breathing on her own around the beginning of 2006, and the state then ended its plans to remove her from life support.
Child advocate to outline goals
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(why do commie teachers prefer Fla?)