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Article: Desert now seen as worst place to go for your allergies
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- Courier-News (Elgin, IL)
- Article date:
- October 4, 1999
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Desert now seen as worst place to go for your allergies zB1 By Pauline Arrillaga THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Terri Cast slumps in the chair of her doctor's office, nine dots the color of roses blossoming across her arm.
"I itch.
I itch!" she complains, jutting a finger at one spreading splotch, demanding to know what it is.
Across the hall, Lonnie Kelly sits amazingly still as a doctor thrusts an instrument up her nose and asks, "Still having the allergies?" "Oh yeah," she responds, her watery eyes shooting him a look of, "What are you, nuts?"
A few doors down, Anne Abbott Gee, with a set of blotches identical to Cast's decorating her arm, munches on a chocolate chip cookie ...