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Lennette Kistner kisses her father, Wendell Nicholson, during a visit to the VA Medical Center in Aspinwall. Lennette has offered to take her father home after his release from the hospital, where he is recovering from amputation of his legs. Nicholson, an alcoholic, was found unconscious near the outhouse at his trailer in July. He had a ruptured stomach ulcer and later, blood poisoning led to the amputation.



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