AUBURN — A troop of participants crowded Exchange Street outside of Auburn Public Theater Sunday morning at the first annual Walk to End Lupus in Auburn. Together, decked in purple “End Lupus” T-shirts, participants were about to start their trek down Genesee Street.

While many of these walkers already knew of lupus and its chronic symptoms as they suffer from the (so far) incurable disease, or know someone that does, they gathered together to bring awareness to those who may have never heard of it.

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