People were curious when Deb went to a clinic with her 7-year-old child.
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So, whenever I find myself in the hospital, in doctor’s office – you know at first in my forties – I was a bit of a curiosity because generally, most of the patients in the cardiac office is 60 plus and here I am sitting there with a 7-year-old son next to me. And so conversations would start. And people would be like ‘well why the devil are you here?
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