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Omaha Steve

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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 07:32 AM Apr 2013

Father and daughter, former Nebraskans, ran marathon, then raced to help others


http://www.omaha.com/article/20130418/NEWS/704189893/1685#father-and-daughter-former-nebraskans-ran-marathon-then-raced-to-help-others

By David Abel
THE BOSTON GLOBE

When Natalie Stavas and her father finally reached mile 26, drained but determined to finish, they heard the boom of the explosions and watched as police began erecting barricades to block runners from continuing to the finish line.

Father and daughter, both originally from Nebraska, knew something was terribly wrong; and despite their fatigue, they knew they had to help.

So Natalie Stavas, 32, a 2011 University of Nebraska Medical Center graduate and now a pediatric resident in Boston, leaped over a barricade. Police screamed for her to stop, she says, but she kept running toward Boylston Street. “I yelled at one officer, saying, 'I'm a pediatric doctor. You have to let me through.'”

FULL story at link.

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