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Plainedge HS assistant principal Alison E. Bird has life turned upside down by fall

Alison Bird, assistant principal at Plainedge High School,

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Her friends describe her as the “life of the party,” and even while wearing a neck brace and fighting severe pain and migraines, Alison E. Bird does not disappoint.

Though Bird, 43, of Nesconset, has been in and out of intensive surgeries to correct a rare condition in which parts of her spine are protruding into her brain, her friends and family say she has kept her spirits high.

“She’s...

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