We need to invest in prevention because it's better for the quality of life of people if they live longer without a chronic or disabling disease, ... and it's better for us as a nation because we're not putting so many resources in treatment of chronic di
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I am so happy because it is just exhausting being a single mother who is married. So I couldn't wait for him to come home, and after a couple days of sleep, he's going to have to start doing his honey-do list like changing the light bulbs that I couldn't reach, walking the dogs, helping out with the baby and all those wonderful things husbands should do.Elizabeth Ward
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