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This is Bernie. She's been fighting multiple sclerosis and has charged into the role of patient advocate. Every year at the MS-150 bicycle ride, she sits by the side of the road, about 4 miles from the start of Day 2's ride. She embraces the task of waving and saying "Thank you" to every single one of the thousands of riders who pass by.
The riders start early, well before dawn. She waits until the last one has passed, and then she is quickly driven 45 miles up the road to a rest area, which she and her friends sponsor. Their goal is to make that rest area the highest-energy rest area of the entire ride. Music, dancing, singing, the works. Last year, she even got out of her wheelchair for a while and joined the dancing, but this year, unfortunately, she can't do that any more.
Ann Romney. Photo by Tony Powell. 2014 Women on the Move Luncheon. Marriott Wardman Park. April 30, 2014
Spoiler advertising? Or just serendipity? Juxtaposition of Smirnoff and Multiple Sclerosis Society bill posters near Murrayfield, Edinburgh in 1984.