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In good spirits, 8-year-old Donald Benoit has his hair combed by nurse Marlene Toon while his 10-year-old brother, Michael, watches. The two boys were(...)
In good spirits, 8-year-old Donald Benoit has his hair combed by nurse Marlene Toon while his 10-year-old brother, Michael, watches. The two boys were(...)

In good spirits, 8-year-old Donald Benoit has his hair combed by nurse Marlene Toon while his 10-year-old brother, Michael, watches. The two boys were(...)

Date10/22/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: In good spirits, 8-year-old Donald Benoit has his hair combed by nurse Marlene Toon while his 10-year-old brother, Michael, watches. The two boys were diseases. It has left them without immunity to any virus.
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Water overflowing upstairs made the hole in the ceiling 6-year-old Donald Moore points to while his little brother, Stephen, 5, plays on the cockroach(...)
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