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The Real Life of the Diabetic who wouldn’t stay down when others said she was done!

Join Deborah E, multi-award winning singer, podcaster, and speaker, who proves that two chronic illnesses since childhood, countless hospitalizations, and a family who told everyone she would be dead before she was 20 does not have to stand in the way of living life to its fullest (and beyond!).

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