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March of Dimes walkers rally to support life’s smallest fighters

Lindsey DeVerter, center, a sixth-grader at North Hall Middle, helps inflate balloons at a stand for her school's FBLA organization, where she is a member, before the start of the March of Dimes March for Babies event in Gainesville, on Saturday, April 21, 2018. - photo by David Barnes

04222018 BABIES 03.jpg — Lindsey DeVerter, center, a sixth-grader at North Hall Middle, helps inflate balloons at a stand for her school's FBLA organization, where she is a member, before the start of the March of Dimes March for Babies event in Gainesville, on Saturday, April 21, 2018. - photo by David Barnes

The temperature hovered just above 50 degrees and the rising sun shined on families gathered Saturday, April 21, behind The Longstreet Clinic in Gainesville. More than 500 people were there, dressed in purple and white, preparing for a walk that means so much to so many: The March of Dimes’annual March for Babies.