By Laurel White Her son and his friends called her “Dr. J.” It was a nod to the nickname of an all-star basketball player at the time, Julius Erving, but it was also an acknowledgement of Jenny Alexander’s incredible perseverance and achievement. Alexander was a young, single mom in the 1970s who pushed through a …
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