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NECN tells the happy story of a family's Thanksgiving reunion

by Erin Graham on November 27, 2009

thanksgivingNew England Cable News shares the story of an 11-year old Children’s patient who got to go home to spend Thanksgiving with his family after being discharged from the hospital.

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