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On July 8th 2001, the New York Times Magazine featured a very unusual looking toddler on its cover. I knew immediately upon looking at her that she had a disease not previously seen by anyone in the medical community ever. How did I know this? Because I, too, have a disease that by all accounts has never occurred before. These pages are my story. Got your interest piqued? Then read on.
Before I get started, I want to prepare you for what this story is not. If you are familiar with the American sci-fi anthology series The Twilight Zone, some or even most of the words of my story will sound like it came straight out of the show.
But in the universe where the show existed, the laws of physics were somewhat different than our own, and that’s what allowed the Twilight Zone to be. While a lot of what I describe is not only super rare and may appear inconsistent with our knowledge of biology and medicine and therefore will sound strange, particularly if you are in the medical field, nothing you read you defies the known laws of the universe. Even for the stuff that can’t be explained doesn’t require we rethink the universe. Yes, some of the biology/medicine that we think we know turns out to be actually wrong, but all the physical laws are safe.
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