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Cancer Victim Embraced Life and Family

Last month, Marcia Glover-Banks, a single mother of three, was battling for time against terminal cancer. During her illness, Glover-Banks wrote and recorded a song with her three young daughters and even wrote a book, Embracing The Journey. She died on June 9 at age 42. Ed Gordon reads a tribute.

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