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Disabled performers pay tribute to Michael Jackson

"Smile, though your heart is aching," Michael Jackson sang in his 1995 cover of the 1936 song "Smile."

That's exactly what eight dancers and one singer, ranging in age from about 21 to 45, did Friday afternoon in a music room at Old Bethpage's Family Residences and Essential Enterprises Inc. The performers, all with disabilities and part of the organization's FREE Players program, performed...

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