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New-face girl welcomed home after facial surgery in Oregon
Ida Hays, 15, arrived in La Grande after 10 hours of facial reconstruction in New York. A police car escorted her to town as about 200 residents cheered and welcomed her. Grandmother Alia Bellus recalled her granddaughter’s years of taunting and cruelty while Ida spoke of feeling embarrassed yet hopeful for the future.
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Ida Hays
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Ida
Alia Bellus
New York University Hospital
New York
Sears
Roesch Fitzgerald
Warren Curry
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Jacquie
Pendleton
Dennis Turner
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