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    End of the Road

    It’s been a long haul for Glenwood Transit Line.

    Seventy-one years to be exact.

    The freight, transport and storage business has been a staple of the Glenwood community since shortly after the Great Depression, but Clarence Boles, Jr., and his wife, Helen, say the time is right to close up shop.

    “It’s neat after this length of time to say we’re closing with a positive attitude,” Helen said

    during an interview last week. “We’re not being forced to do this. We’re doing this because the time has come.”

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    Unconditional Love

    March 15 was supposed to be a joyful day for Tim and Melissa Lorang.

    Yes, it was a Monday, the first day of a long work week, but it was also the day of Melissa’s 20-week ultrasound - the day the expecting parents were going to learn the gender of their baby.

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    Gina Gets On With Her Life

    Her routine is rigorous. Physically exhausting. Emotionally draining. Some days, it's outright overwhelming.

    Gina Giaffoglione would have it no other way.

    One year removed from an auto accident that has left her with full paralysis in the lower half of her body, the 22-year-old Wayne State College student is determined as ever to return to a lifestyle of total independence.

  • Dealing With The Pain

    As far as Renee Coffey is concerned, she will always have eight children.

    Renee and husband Charles lost their daughter Amanda Grace a little over six year ago to complications from anencephaly, a neural tube defect that prevented their daughter’s skull and brain from developing properly.

    Amanda Grace Coffey was delivered by cesarean at Creighton University Medical Center on April 23, 2004. She lived just over 27 hours and died surrounded by her mother, father and seven brothers and sisters.

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    The Anencephaly Diagnosis

    Anencephaly occurs in just three of every 10,000 live births in the United States.

    There is no cure nor medical intervention for the neural tube birth defect.

    Treatment for babies born with the fatal disorder is supportive; parents are instructed to keep the baby warm and protect the baby’s exposed tissue.

    Half of babies born with anencephaly die within 10 days of birth. In very rare cases anencephalic babies live more than a month.

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