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Encouragement, support helped pair finish ‘Fit Body Challenge’

As a new year approaches, there will be New Year’s resolutions made to get in shape. That was and still is the motivation for Marion Wells of Flossmoor and Michelle Manuel of Homewood, who met at the H-F Racquet & Fitness Club’s Fit Body Challenge in January.

Michelle Manuel, left, and Marion Wells became exercise buddies
after being paired in the H-F Racquet Club’s Get Fit Challenge
in January. (Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle)

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