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Angie Scardino, 86; gave up privacy to share struggle after fall broke her hip

“If I say I can’t, I’ll never get home and I’ll never do for myself,’’ Angie Scardino said in 2005. She bought sunglasses the next year. “If I say I can’t, I’ll never get home and I’ll never do for myself,’’ Angie Scardino said in 2005. She bought sunglasses the next year. (Photos By Bill Greene/Globe Staff/File 2006)
By Bryan Marquard
Globe Staff / September 2, 2010

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The fall that altered the last five years of Angie Scardino’s life occurred in the seemingly safest of places, a corridor leading to her doctor’s examining room. (Full article: 1087 words)

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