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Sharing care: Cindy's story

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Sharing care: Cindy's story

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Cindy is a veteran, wife, mother and survivor of necrotizing fasciitis—a flesh- eating bacteria that cost her both her legs and her right arm. Determined not to let life stand in her way, she achieved her goal of finishing the Marine Corps Marathon.

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