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Missoula, Mont. (AP) The AIDS quilt is coming to the University of Montana in September, and organizers are asking those who would like to see a specific panel displayed contact the Missoula AIDS Council by Aug. 1.

UM and the Missoula AIDS Council are bringing the quilt to the Adams Center Sept. 18-21.

Friends and families with loved ones who are memorialized in the quilt can request those panels be displayed by calling the council at 406-543-4770.

Seventy-five quilt blocks commemorating some 450 people who have died of AIDS-related illnesses will be showcased. All known panels honoring those from Montana who have died of AIDS, as well as others from around the nation, will be displayed.

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