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A Personal Note: As many of you know, my wife has had two major surgeries on a rare tumor.  In fact, we really didn't know that much about it ourselves, until one evening when she heard  someone speaking of Chordoma on the "ABC Evening News with Charlie Gibson" program.  I will let the link tell you more about it.  The Chordoma Foundation

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