There was a time when Marnie Miller?s heart would race anytime the phone rang. Her son, Luke, had been diagnosed with life-threatening allergies to peanuts and tree nuts at only eight months old, and for years every phone call could only mean one thing: bad news.
Before having even picked up the phone, Marnie would have figured out how quickly she could make it to the hospital, who to notify and how much gas was in the car. Fortunately, she never got that scary call, but it wasn?t until her son was halfway through elementary school that she stopped expecting the worst each time the phone rang.

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