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Alexa Ercolano

May 2, 2017
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Written by Alexa Ercolano

Alexa is a writer, book hoarder, and cat enthusiast living with lymphedema in Baltimore, MD. By day, she works in the marketing and communications department for a pneumatic compression pump company; by night, she runs The Lymphie Life.

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