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I serve on the Executive Leadership Team for the American Heart Association and am participating in the Heart Walk on April 14th. For nearly 100 years, the American Heart Association has been fighting heart disease and stroke and helping families and communities thrive. Women also have a higher risk and it can strike at any time. The donations raised by the Heart Walk to advance research has even greater meaning for me this year as our daughter suffered a cardiac event 9 days after delivering our beautiful granddaughter and we saw firsthand the horrible impact of heart disease. Our daughter is a survivor and my “Why” for walking this year. Please consider a donation to the Heart Walk and help us continue this fight against heart disease. Your donation will help fund groundbreaking research that literally keeps hearts beating and helps people have longer, healthier lives. Thank you!