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Bruce Poliquin / Connecting With Family

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Bruce Poliquin / Connecting With Family

Bruce Poliquin speaks  to Matt Gagnon and shares A couple heartwarming stories about not being able visit his 90-year-old parents in the nursing home. The Aide there uses her iPhone to connect with him every day at 10am so his mom and dad can see all is good……. Every couple days he sends a different one to nursing home so parents can see something good and happy.

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