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OUR KIDS WERE NINE AND 12, AND DURING THE COURSE OF HIS TREATMENT, WHICH WAS PRETTY PUNISHING, HE HAD A RADICAL SURGERY WHERE THEY TOOK OUT HIS ESOPHAGUS, PULLED UP HIS STOMACH AND RECONNECTED IT.

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