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May 4, 2004

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." --Richard Bach

Lungs of a Smoker

When she became a flight attendant, her colleagues told her three things: you are going to meet the most interesting men, travel to exciting places and have the lungs of a smoker, even if you never smoke. The last one struck her. It especially hit her when her colleague, Norma Broin, was daignosed with lung cancer. Patty, immediately, launched a relentless crusade against smoking on airplanes that would change, quite literally, the world.