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Lives in hope: Wendy Blackburn, who plans to marry Gerald Basnicki when he recovers from injuries suffered in an automobile accident last March, visits him at Toronto Western almost every day
Lives in hope: Wendy Blackburn, who plans to marry Gerald Basnicki when he recovers from injuries suffered in an automobile accident last March, visits him at Toronto Western almost every day

Lives in hope: Wendy Blackburn, who plans to marry Gerald Basnicki when he recovers from injuries suffered in an automobile accident last March, visits him at Toronto Western almost every day

Date9/9/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Lives in hope: Wendy Blackburn, who plans to marry Gerald Basnicki when he recovers from injuries suffered in an automobile accident last March, visits him at Toronto Western almost every day.
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