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Overcoming the odds: Mom overcomes financial struggles, cancer

DeAnn Watson, a single mother of four, has overcome poverty and most recently, stage 5 tongue cancer. She had her tongue removed and had to learn how to speak again. - photo by Michelle Boaen Jameson

1226WATSON1 — DeAnn Watson, a single mother of four, has overcome poverty and most recently, stage 5 tongue cancer. She had her tongue removed and had to learn how to speak again. - photo by Michelle Boaen Jameson

DeAnn Watson shrugged and said she always just managed the best way she could. The 42-year-old Gainesville woman’s “best” is a word with weight. Indeed, no word that comes from Watson’s mouth is to be taken lightly.