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by admin | March 3, 2016

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In this 2009 WLUK-TV FOX 11 story, meet “Peggy Driessen who has ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

She gets through each day with a positive attitude — and a lot of help from loved ones.”

Learn more about ALS here: http://bit.ly/ALSNewsToday

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