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Feb 2020
41m 3s

Poison

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In this Dateline classic, newlyweds Paul and Linda Curry come down with a mysterious illness. Paul recovers but Linda is hospitalized and the strange symptoms won’t go away. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on December 12, 2014. 
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