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Allergies

Posted By: Neta on 2009-01-22
In Reply to: Just like you have it, why change anything? - nm

Subject: Allergies

Was instructed to always all cap ALLERGIES, but usually not used in the middle of the sentence.  Thanks for the replies.


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