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'Dream Walk' held for weight-loss surgery patients

Cindy Schreiner, 49, of Lynbrook, said she made it down the stairs of her lower Manhattan office building on Sept. 11, 2001, but was so overweight she couldn't run away when she reached the street. A colleague helped her into a garage. Fern Fladell, 45, of Rockville Centre, said she once worried her knees would give out under her 260-pound weight. Saturday, they were among dozens of people who had...

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