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Seven years ago, Evie Branan suffered a stroke that left her in a semi-coma. In May of 2011, she tumbled out of bed, bumped her head and woke up. Her first words: I want to go to a Bob Seger concert. Tonight in Flint, Michigan, a limousine is going to pull up to her nursing home and take her to one.
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Examining my brain scan, the emergency room neurosurgeon announced gravely, Well, you didn't have a stroke, but you do have a brain tumor--about the size of a golfball. Before the tumor, dead-end jobs supported a lifestyle of immediate gratification and self-destructiveness.
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