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Duluth musician, therapist and activist Diona Johnson dies at 35

DULUTH Singer, songwriter, therapist and activist Diona Johnson (or Di Jay), a Duluthian who led the favored band AfroGeode and the Gem stones, died Monday at age 35. Johnson’s demise was sudden, stated her husband, Steve Karels, and the precise trigger stays unknown pending the outcomes of an post-mortem. “There’s a chance that she had …

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