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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Brigid Schulte / The Bulletin
March 6, 2010
WASHINGTON — Maribel Perez breathes in short puffs, panting almost, through a hole cut into her trachea and covered demurely with a patch of white gauze. Clear tubes connected to a noisy machine in the living room of her small Alexandria apartment pump pure oxygen into her nostrils.
Crossing the....
