EDMOND, Oklahoma – Vicki Toombs was watching the returns on election night 2016 when her phone buzzed – a text from her 22-year-old son, Beau, in Chicago. Beau, who is gay, was afraid that the new administration would end the Affordable Care Act and with it the insurance he and his friends used to pay for the drugs that protected them from HIV and AIDS. “I just felt the bottom drop out of my world,” said Toombs, 61.
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Sun, 05/27/2018 - 3:52pm
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