For a Friend -- Nicky Roberts Tribute Focuses On Pulmonary Hypertension Risks

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When Lil Long and Nicky Roberts met for the first time about 25 years ago, there was tension in the air. Friends who knew both warned them separately that they would hate each other.

Each was a hard-driving marketing executive - Roberts with Mud Island, Long with the Pride of the Pond catfish processing plant in Tunica, Miss. They met in Roberts' office to discuss a catfish- cooking contest that Roberts planned as a promotion for Mud Island.

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For a Friend -- Nicky Roberts Tribute Focuses On Pulmonary Hypertension Risks

Roberts' husband, Joe, recalls that the two "did their business in 10 minutes and went to lunch - and they were best friends from that point on."

Long agrees: "We were together all the time and on the phone with each other four or five times a day."

It broke Long's heart when Roberts died of pulmonary hypertension at age 52 on Sept. 3, 20...

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