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Rolling petition prompts Atlantans to fight cancer

images3.jpgLoretta Mealing lost both parents to lung cancer and a sister to breast cancer, which also threatened her life more than 11 years ago.

So when the American Cancer Society’s Fight Back Express bus rolled into Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta Wednesday, the Stockbridge resident jumped at the chance to squeeze a

handwritten note among thousands of signatures already scribbled on the bus’s side. “I love you, Mudear,” it said.

Mealing was among dozens of metro Atlantans who signed their names to the red, white and blue rolling petition which calls for making the fight against cancer a higher national priority.

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