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I had fasiculations all over my body. I was diagnosed with lower motor neuron disease. I was at the City of Faith where prayer and medicine was put together and one of the people that was there, that was one of the ministers, prayed for me and I was healed. I am probably one of the few people that has survived ALS. I had documented EMG evidence of it.
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