Lori Sepich smoked for years and sometimes skipped taking her blood pressure medicine. But she never thought she\u2019d have a heart attack.<\/p>\n
The possibility \u201cjust wasn\u2019t registering with me,\u201d said the 64-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, who suffered two of them 13 years apart.<\/p>\n
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