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Age, and attitude, and prayer.
If that sounds like a country song, it should.
That's how Ken Peltier -- Alaska's best-known country musician -- describes what got him through six grinding weeks of treatment for neck and throat cancer.
Peltier's feisty personality and innate toughness survived. He's already back to work at his day job as statewide administrator for the Alaska Operating Engineers/Employers Training Trust.
But the 38-year-old finished treatments last month 30 pounds lighter, with a throat too raw for singing -- yet. He hasn't been away from performing this long since 1992.
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