Daughter's Facebook plea helps raise money for family's bills

December 25, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CST

Jodie Bappe speaks to friends during a fundraiser benefiting her parents at her home in Columbia. Bappe started a blog to raise awareness for her parents' medical conditions; her mother has a life threatening lung condition and her father has throat cancer.

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