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Karen Duffy

"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."

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Assegid Habtewold

"The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!"

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Assegid Habtewold

"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."

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"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."

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"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."

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Assegid Habtewold

"The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up."

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"You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach."

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"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."

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"On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week."

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Karen Duffy
"I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital."

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Karen Duffy
"I try to manage my time to conserve energy."

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Karen Duffy
"I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic."

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Karen Duffy
"I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign."

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Karen Duffy
"In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities."

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Karen Duffy
"In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers."

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Karen Duffy
"I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum."

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Karen Duffy
"The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area."

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Karen Duffy
"A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis."

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Karen Duffy
"My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head."

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