For nearly two decades, I was convinced I would die before my 50th birthday. I was not sick, nor had I learned from a carnival prophet that my life was soon ending; rather, the women in my family die young and I had no faith I would be different.
Dead by 50
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By Heather Kinzie
Chief Operating Officer
The STRIVE Group