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David Albers/Staff - Val Sirmons, of Fort Pierce, is hugged by fellow volunteer Juanita Jackson after sharing stories of her parents facing serious illness at a Women for Obama 'Multiply Your Voice' Organizing Meeting on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Fort Pierce, Fla.

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David Albers/Staff - Val Sirmons, of Fort Pierce, is hugged by fellow volunteer Juanita Jackson after sharing stories of her parents facing serious illness at a Women for Obama 'Multiply Your Voice' Organizing Meeting on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Fort Pierce, Fla.

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  • David Albers/Staff - Val Sirmons, of Fort Pierce, is hugged by fellow volunteer Juanita Jackson after sharing stories of her parents facing serious illness at a Women for Obama 'Multiply Your Voice' Organizing Meeting on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Fort Pierce, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Fort Pierce mayoral candidate Vince Gaskin, left, greets 80-year-old Wayne Corfman, of Fort Pierce, as Gaskin circulates with his campaign manager Cleaver Hayling, center, at a weekly farmer's market at the waterfront in downtown Fort Pierce on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012.
  • David Albers/Staff - Volunteer David Parada, of Fort Pierce, helps to draw attention to a voter registration effort at a weekly farmer's market at the waterfront downtown in Fort Pierce on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012.
  • David Albers/Staff - Obama supporter Marjorie Harrell sits at her desk in the Democratic Party volunteer office she helps to run on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Fort Pierce, Fla. Harrell said she works daily to register voters and battle misconceptions about voting rights.
  • David Albers/Staff - Obama supporter Marjorie Harrell sits at her desk in the Democratic Party volunteer office she helps to run on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Fort Pierce, Fla. Harrell said she works daily to register voters and battle misconceptions about voting rights.
  • David Albers/Staff - Vera Harrell, Alfreda Wright and Robert Wright, left to right, visit together after a Women for Obama 'Multiply Your Voice' Organizing Meeting on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Fort Pierce, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Denver Dukes, of Fort Pierce, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Val Sirmons, of Fort Pierce., Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Zumba instructor Cecelia Garcia, second from left, leads a dancing demonstration at a Latin culture fair in downtown Fort Pierce on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Fort Pierce, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Fort Pierce resident Nancy Kirk steps out of a 1973 Chevrolet Camaro arriving at a weekly car show in downtown Fort Pierce on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012.
  • David Albers/Staff - A fisherman casts into the Indian River on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Titusville, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Titusville residents Aaron Jimenz, left, and Lauren Walker fish together in the Indian River on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Titusville, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Titusville resident Lauren Walker
  • David Albers/Staff - Workers leave the John F. Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building at lunchtime on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012.
  • David Albers/Staff - A worker walks past a mockup of the NASA-designed and Lockheed Martin-manufactured Orion spacecraft in the John F. Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. The spacecraft was originally designed for the now-cancelled Constellation program to replace the space shuttle and send astronauts to the moon, an asteroid and Mars.
  • David Albers/Staff - U.S. Space Walk Hall of Fame museum chief of staff Karan Conklin, left, prepares a model of the five NASA space shuttles for transportation with curator Lee Starrick to a local teacher's workshop on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Titusville, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Unemployed space industry workers, including Philip Harner, center, gather for a weekly meeting of the Space Coast Technical Network on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, in Titusville, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - Volunteer Bob Legrow, of Titusville, center, distributes campaign signs to supporters at a Romney campaign volunteer office on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Titusville, Fla.
  • David Albers/Staff - A worker passes a security checkpoint to gain access to the decommissioning effort of Pad A at Launch Complex 39 at John F. Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. The launch pad, alongside Pad B, were used for the space shuttle program and are currently being deconstructed.
  • David Albers/Staff - The names of workers from NASA's Mercury Space Project, which first put Americans into space, adorn the base of a monument to the project in Space View Park on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 in Titusville. Fla. The monument is one of four honoring American space exploration in the park within view of John F. Kennedy Space Center's launch facilities.
  • David Albers/Staff - The names of workers from NASA's Mercury Space Project, which first put Americans into space, adorn the base of a monument to the project in Space View Park on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 in Titusville. Fla. The monument is one of four honoring American space exploration in the park within view of John F. Kennedy Space Center's launch facilities.

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