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Sonya's Faithful Steppers

A daughter in her mother's footsteps

by Yma Johnson

posted 4/9/2009

“Lung cancer seems to carry a stigma, because people think everyone who has lung cancer is a smoker,” says former Ann Arborite Janice Nash. In fact, Nash points out, “over fifty percent of people with lung cancer are nonsmokers”—including her niece, Sonya Allen, who died of the disease two years ago.

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