• By Sadie
    May 11, 2009 11:40 AM 4,787
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    R.I.P. Martha Mason

    Martha Mason, whose memoir, Breath, chronicles living since the age of 11 in an iron lung following paralysis from polio, has died at 71. There are perhaps 30 Americans living in iron lungs. [NYT]


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