Love on Wheelz

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Q. I’ve read that MD is a hereditary disease. Does it run in your family?
A. As far as I can tell, me and my younger brother are the only people in my immediate family who have it. When we were first diagnosed, the doctors made my parents go through their family trees. They only found a great great great aunt (or cousin, I’m not sure) who used a wheelchair. Since MD is recessive, I think it lay dormant until the stork combined my parents’ genes. (I refuse to believe they had sex.)

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