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      <image:caption>05.09.2023 In January 2018, we moved from Colorado to Boston for Mila to begin her treatment. Just before we left, two sisters living just an hour away were diagnosed with another form of Batten disease. Lilly was six then. She was running around, playing with friends, and singing her favorite songs. Today, Lilly is blind and spends most of her time on the floor. When she finishes eating, her mother holds her hands, wipes them clean and supports her daughter as she stands.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>05.10.2023 When Cecilia was eight, she was diagnosed with Batten CLN3. So was her little sister Lilly. At the time, there were four promising treatments in the pipeline. There was hope. But despite the explosion of scientific advancements over the past few years, each of these treatments have been shelved or paused. Today, Cecilia has lost her vision, her mobility and her independence. Just a few last words remain. As she sits in her dark world, her father closes his eyes to join her, his hands in hers. He was never given the chance to try a treatment for his girls. And just like that, their hope was gone.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>05.12.2023 “Cecilia and Lilly were typical kids until around seven, and then they started regressing. We got their diagnosis of Batten disease just after Zelie was born. She’s five now, but cognitively she’s already surpassed her oldest sisters. We try to let her just be a kid, but the reality is she will never know life without rare disease impacting her everyday.” -Beth Fries</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>01.10.2024 In November 2016, as my six-year-old Mila lay weak in the hospital from a battery of tests, I came across a video of Charlotte Gray that made my heart stop. Like Mila, she was born at the end of 2010, had thick silky brown hair, big brown eyes and a mischievous laugh. Like Mila, I watched as she zipped around on her scooter, dove into the pool and smiled wide for the camera. Like Mila, she had taken a mysterious turn and began a rapid decline. And then she and her little sister Gwenyth were diagnosed with the fatal condition, Batten disease. Just days after watching the video, Mila too was diagnosed with the same devastating disease. Both girls were destined to die.  Charlotte's parents raced against time to stop their girls' disease and started one of the very first gene therapies to the brain. Because of their help and friendship, I was able to fight for Mila. Both girls were fortunate enough to be among the few who received treatment. But too many dominoes had fallen by then. They would become the pioneers who are helping those who follow.  A few weeks ago, Charlotte turned 13. She is the age Mila would have been today.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>01.12.2024 Gwenyth Gray is 10 1/2 years old. She smiles as her mother gently, but firmly supports her growing body as she takes slow steps toward the living room where her younger brothers await. Gwen was just 3 when she received one of the first ever gene therapies to the brain which her parents fought day and night to start. Today, Gwen is in a place far better than where she should be given her disease. Fourteen other children with Batten CLN6 were part of her trial, which a company took over in order to commercialize it and make it accessible to many more. But the regulatory pathway and financial system weren't designed for biotechs pushing treatments for the small populations of rare disease. And so this medicine landed on a shelf for years, and with it the hope for the next child diagnosed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>01.16.2024 Mila was my first child. Like other new mothers, my time and energy moved away from taking care of myself to taking care of my baby. I nursed her, I bathed her, I rocked her to sleep. Then she grew and became more independent. She could walk and run and navigate the house on her own. She spoke and told me when she was hungry, tired or sick. She could feed herself, sit on the toilet, climb into her bed and fall asleep alone. But then, around four years old, she started to regress. Just as I returned to holding Mila's hand again when she walked, cutting up her food into small pieces again and sitting her in a stroller to get through the grocery store, Kristen Gray was doing the same for her first child, Charlotte. Neither of us understood why our daughters were going in reverse. There was no taking care of ourselves. Our girls depended on us more and more by the month.  Our answers came when both of our young daughters were diagnosed with Batten disease and we were told that all they learned they would soon forget. As months and years passed, our relationship with our girls returned to their infancy where we held them in our arms and carried them around our homes, we changed their diapers now in sizes too large to find in stores, and we wiped the saliva from their mouths as they could no longer lift their arms to do it themselves.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>02.06.2024 When Mila was diagnosed with a disease I was told was impossible to survive, I immediately wanted another child. But I stuffed that yearning into a box, closed it and pushed it to the back of a dark closet so I could fight for Mila. It was out of sight, but never gone. Toward the end of Mila's life, I reached back into the closet, opened the box and pulled out the longing, burning stronger than ever. Perhaps I wanted another child to fill the hole in my heart that was coming. Perhaps to ensure that Azlan wouldn't be left alone in this world, carrying the pain of what he had lived through. Perhaps to try to bring Mila back. For better or worse, life as a single mom did not allow me to live my dream. But for parents like me, this decision often comes at an age and time that make having another child seemingly impossible. Like me, Kristen Gray and her husband navigated this difficult path while at the same time fighting for Charlotte and Gwenyth, their only two children, both with a disease no child had ever survived. When the girls were 6 and 8 years old, they finally had a healthy little boy named Cal, and a year later another, Gavin.  A new life of immense joy with the backdrop of immense sadness.  Another unspoken fight in the lives of families like ours.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>02.09.2024 In the last few years of Mila's life, when she woke up in the morning, she would lie in bed and wait until I came in to carry her downstairs. I put my hands on her, hugged her, sang to her so she never felt alone. But I was plagued by the possibility that she felt trapped, confused and scared. Unlike Mila, Gwenyth Gray still has her vision and occasionally climbs out of bed and crawls down the hallway. She wakes up in the morning and opens her eyes to sunlight and the room around her. Gwen received one of the first gene therapies to the brain when she was just 3 years old, and 4 years later began taking a promising off-label medication. She is able to watch cartoons, use her hands to feed herself and interact with her little brothers. She smiles and she laughs. In these early years of learning from genetic therapies, those fortunate enough to access a treatment are often searching for other complementary approaches. For even the luckiest of rare disease parents where hope still exists, the fight never seems to end.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>02.16.2024 At the end of Mila’s life, when she could no longer remove a fly from her nose and her brain was losing volume, I was forced to think what Mila would want. A decision no parent should ever have to make. Like me, Kristen Gray finds herself in the impossible place of having to think for her daughter Charlotte, who has lost nearly all of her abilities and can no longer tell her mother how she feels. Sleeping with her one-year-old son on the sofa just outside Char’s room, Kristen jumps up and rushes to her daughter’s side numerous times every night to suction the saliva from her mouth and ease her back to sleep. Each day, despite little to no sleep, Kristen and her husband get back up on their feet and face a full day of school drop-offs and pick-ups, therapies, doctors appointments, and jobs. They do it because they must. Some mornings, there is a brief quiet moment to reflect, but just like that it’s gone and it’s time to do it all over again.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>04.02.2024 Logan and Iris are two year-old identical twins whose gentle smiles and dark curls pull me in. I met them, together with their brother and parents Trisha and Chris, on Zoom when the girls were tiny, soon after they were diagnosed with SPTAN1, a rare genetic disease. At the very dawn of their lives, their fate was handed to their family on a plate - die young or survive, trapped in the minds and bodies of infants whose breathing, eating, sleeping and moving would forever depend on others.  The trajectory of Trisha and Chris' lives is far from what they had dreamed of, at first glance unbearable even to me after what I have lived with Mila. Every moment of every day and every night consumes them. But the delicate balance they have found of fighting hard for a treatment while also accepting their life today, of feeding, diapering, suctioning and rehabilitating their girls while at the same time pausing to take in the smallest moments of joy, is something so beautiful that it must be shared.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>04.09.2024 For many rare disease parents, we carry the heavy weight of knowing that our children depend on us to keep them alive. Trisha and Chris Lockard face this for both of their girls, Iris and Logan. They trade off throughout each day and night handling feeding tubes, oxygen machines, seizure monitors and mucus suctions. There is no room for error. They carefully hold their girls, dress them, feed them, put their leg braces on, and soothe them back to sleep. Like I felt about Mila, in many ways children like ours become extensions of ourselves, little bodies and little minds who need us.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>04.17.2024 Like my son Azlan felt when Mila was alive, Jude often finds himself alone. He was 3 years old when his sisters were born and soon after diagnosed with a rare genetic disease. He leans back and watches as his parents prepare meals and medications, give oxygen, and dress, feed and position his sisters in their therapy equipment.   Jude may never remember life as a typical kid with a typical family. His life is different now, but that's all he knows. He loves his sisters and wants them nearby. His parents want him to feel part of a family, like his friends do, so every few weeks they rally and bring their girls to his soccer game, packing up three children, a double stroller, bag of diapers, water, food, medicines, breathing machines and neck pillows, then unpacking them all when they arrive, carefully positioning the girls and making their way to the field.  At the end of the week, there is no extra energy left in them, but they somehow find it for Jude.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>04.30.2024 For most parents, it's the big moments in our kids' lives we hold onto - the first time swimming across the pool, the first soccer trophy, the first piano recital. But for families with children like Logan, Iris and Mila, it's the tiniest moments that bring us the most happiness. A small clenched fist that reaches out for connection, a possible intentional smile, little eyes intensely locked with our own, sending silent love through the air.  Despite the pain and exhaustion, these are the moments for parents like us that make us wake up each day and keep going.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>05.03.2024 When Mila started rapidly losing her abilities, I began to see my own brain and body in an entirely different way. It suddenly seemed miraculous that people all around me were capable of lifting their feet to walk, reaching out their arms to grab things, driving cars and navigating busy streets, and feeding themselves by chewing and swallowing pieces of carefully cut food. For parents like us, Trisha and Chris must take over where Logan and Iris' bodies and brains can't. They pump oxygen into little mouths, strap small bodies into devices to help blood circulate, open tightly clenched hands and massage fingers, and sit both girls in their feeding chairs, tilted back with supportive neck pillows, carefully spooning warm pureed food into their hungry mouths.  All of this because of a little mutation in the wrong place. A genetic lottery that millions like our daughters didn't win.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.09.2024 Henry Saladino can say a few words, but his mouth and tongue don’t cooperate with his thoughts. He understands everything other 4 year olds can, but his genetic disease, alternating hemiplegia of childhood, or AHC, has made life far more difficult, frustrating and scary than for the other kids his age. Like Henry, Mila struggled to tell us what she wanted to say. I can still feel the sadness of watching her try so hard to form the words, only to sigh, bow her head and give up. Henry’s parents find their way of connecting. They sit beside him and say, "how much do we love you?", waiting in silence as Henry responds by reaching one arm up high to say "Soooo much!!". Then they do the same to show him they understand.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.11.2024 Every week, Henry has numerous seizures lasting 5-10 minutes each. On top of that, every month an even bigger, terrifying one hits unexpectedly and lasts 15 minutes, sometimes more, requiring resuscitation and ambulances. Each time, his parents beg the universe not to take Henry, not this time, to give him just a little longer to make it to a treatment that scientists are racing to develop and get to him. In just the last year, two of the few children in the world with Henry's mutation have died. His parents haven't told him, but he senses their fears, crawls over and kisses them as if to say "don't worry, I'll be ok." His parents know that only a genetic treatment will make this come true.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.16.2024 For many of us, walking is just something our body and brain know how to do. Before I watched Mila lose her ability to run, then walk, I had never realized how precisely numerous different functions had to come together for a person to take just one step.  For Henry, it takes everything in him to walk just a few feet from the playground slide to the bench. He wants to be independent like other 4 year olds so he tries, but he knows he may fall. He feels his dad's hand on his back, the support he needs, and so he takes another step.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.18.2024 Henry's favorite toy is Lion, a small wooden shape with lovingly worn off paint and rounded edges. He fits perfectly in Henry's little hand. Lion goes everywhere with Henry. He eats Henry's snacks, takes his medicines before he does, and if Henry isn't thirsty, but Lion is, Henry takes a sip. Henry's disease, AHC, may have robbed him of much of his mobility and speech and threatened him with seizures, but playing with Lion makes him feel like just any other kid. While fighting for a treatment for Henry, his parents make time for these little moments. They walk the fine line of balancing the future and the now. They watch as Henry sits on the floor, moving his body as he can, creating an imaginary story around Lion. They feel Lion's excitement through his sounds, see Lion running through Henry's quickly moving legs. As Henry plays, I can't help but think of Mila smiling so widely, her fingers wrapped around her snowman Olaf, lifting him and dropping him, the only way she had left to play. Despite the everyday pain, fear and exhaustion, these are the moments that parents like us hold tightly to, the ones that keep us going.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.19.2024 For Henry and his family, the seizures never get easier. Each time a big one comes on, the fear is the same. It's just another day until time stops, just like that, and a seizure runs through Henry's brain like a storm. His parents, Mary and Anthony, drop the blocks they were building with Henry and snap into clinical mode, urgently grabbing the rescue medicine from Henry's bag, injecting it into the side of his mouth, laying him on the floor and setting the phone beside his limp body watching the clock, mentally calculating how many more minutes before they call 911 and what needs to be packed before the ambulance arrives. On a lucky day, the seizure ends at home. But on the worst days, they clench their hands together in desperation and silent prayers as Henry is rushed to the hospital, not knowing if he will return. At the end of these days, Henry falls into a deep sleep from the devastating seizures and medicines that have rushed through him. His parents fall in bed beside him, hold him close and silently cry.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>08.07.2024 This may look like any child, any family, any weekend. A dad and mom sharing the excitement of their daughter, little hands grasping a new toy, eyes wide with curiosity at the tiny image on the camera screen. What you can't see is that this little girl, Ipek, has a fatal genetic disease - ataxia telangiectasia, or AT - which eventually robs children of their ability to read and write, slurs their speech, confines them to wheelchairs and makes them highly likely to get regular lung infections that don't respond to antibiotics and malignant cancers like lymphoma and leukemia. Children with AT often don't survive their teenage years, at most into their twenties. But Ipek received a highly targeted genetic treatment at just three years old and became the second child after Mila to receive an individualized medicine. Four years have gone by, and although regular injections and hospital monitoring are the price to pay, Ipek's life is more normal than what it should be.  It's moments like these that give us hope that we can find and treat children like Mila and Ipek in time so that they and their families never know life with disease.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>08.09.2024 Before Mila began receiving milasen, I thought about what I would consider a meaningful outcome. Facing a rapidly progressive fatal condition, a longer life was the obvious answer. But when I dove deeper beyond time, I found my answers in happiness and interaction with the world around her.  A few years after Mila began receiving her treatment, Ipek followed with her own individualized medicine, but she was treated earlier on in her disease. Only time will tell if a longer life lies ahead, but in the meantime I can't help but notice her joy and the friends who surround her at swim class, a red-haired mermaid clutched tightly in her hand. A scene so familiar from the happiest time in Mila's life.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>08.20.2024 Before Mila was diagnosed, I had no idea that a seemingly healthy child could lose their abilities. I didn't know that Mila's ease in placing little people into her doll house would come to an end, childhood laughter turning into exhaustion and confusion. Unlike Mila, Ipek was treated early on in her disease. One big step towards the future of finding and treating children at birth before symptoms even begin. In many ways, Ipek’s life is looking better than where it should be. But it isn't black and white. She works hard to carry the little flower garden she made while at the same time concentrating on walking properly so it doesn't fall.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>08.23.2024 When I watch Ipek walk down the stairs, I can't help but think back to years ago when she met Mila at Boston Children's Hospital after an injection of milasen. Ipek was two years old and had just started walking. Mila was nine and her legs were just starting to give out. Ipek walked beside Mila, supported by me from behind, with Mila's birthday balloon in her hand. That day, I remember thinking that Mila had given her legs and likely her life to Ipek. Learning from one little girl to help the next. That's how we're going to get there.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>09.12.2024 Wheeler is five years old. When he was less than a month old, his parents were told he would lose his vision, memory, mobility and life. Wheeler has CLN3 juvenile Batten disease, a condition that, on top of losing nearly all of his abilities, causes him mental destruction and behavioral storms, and eventually will rob him of his life, likely in his teens. Getting through an average day is exasperating for everyone in the family. Wheeler is both sensory sensitive and sensory seeking, making even the smallest of tasks - like a few bites of dinner- challenging. His mom Judy plays ‘knights and dragons’, making growling sounds as she hangs her 50lb son upside down, struggling to hold up his weight, to meet his sensory needs in the hope he will sit down and eat his dinner. Meanwhile, Wheeler's dad Court plays with his younger son Read, who is not affected by Batten, but like any child, has his own wants and needs - needs that are hard to meet in a home that revolves around Wheeler.  Even their two dogs chip in to support, often approaching Read with a ball to play with or lying on Wheeler to provide sensory input. Court and Judy divide and conquer, fighting their exhaustion from a long day, in hopes of being the best parents they can be amidst the overwhelming situation they were dealt. Only to know they will do it all over again later that day, and then again the next.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>09.13.2024 Every Monday evening after a long day at work, Wheeler's dad Court drives him an hour each way to riding therapy. It's just one of the many therapies Wheeler takes part in every week, but it's the most unique. He's lifted up onto Dixie the horse, whose gait sends Wheeler the sensory signals he needs to sit still and focus on his speech exercises. As the horse walks around the ring, Wheeler's stillness can turn to screams from one second to the next with no explanation and the only remedy is his father swiftly pulling him down into his arms, finding a quiet spot alone to calm him.  There's no dropping Wheeler off and sitting back to relax. Court keeps a close eye on his son from the moment they arrive until the moment they head home, ready to rush over and intervene before the next outburst occurs.  This is how Batten disease affects a family.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>09.17.2024 Wheeler screams out of frustration, his mother's face just inches away. She stays calm and looks into his eyes in hopes that maybe for a brief moment they will connect. Wheeler's parents have gotten used to the occasional outbursts, but what had been sporadic has become common and taken over their lives. Behavior is Wheeler's form of communication, but they struggle to figure out what their son is trying to tell them.  Today, it started with the hat he took from a friend and his mom's calm explanation of why he needed to give it back. But she knows the scream runs deeper. She knows her son's brain is malfunctioning from Batten disease, dying one neuron at a time. Despite her exhaustion and ringing ears, she takes it because one day soon, Wheeler won’t be able to do anything at all.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>09.20.2024 Wheeler was diagnosed with an ultra rare fatal condition just after birth, and miraculously there were 3 treatments in the pipeline for his condition. Neither of these things happen often. On top of that, his mom was Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Department of Health and Human Services. When she reached out to me at that time, I remember thinking, if any child has a chance at beating the odds, it's this little boy. But five years later, all 3 treatments have been stalled, shelved or abandoned, leaving Wheeler and kids like him in limbo between bureaucracy and the promise of scientific innovation. And now his symptoms are taking over. Wheeler’s parents have found themselves fighting a system of access to therapeutics not designed for their son, while at the same time fighting a world not fit for him.   Screaming fits, negotiations, calming, anger, frustration, exhaustion. This is Wheeler’s world, his family’s world, but there are millions of others like them who live in it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>10.23.2024 Annabel is 9 years old. She loves baby dolls, painting and riding her bike. But she has a rare neurological disorder called Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) which causes episodes of paralysis, limpness and an inability to respond normally to life around her. Children with AHC can experience these symptoms for hours or even days on end, with each episode causing possible irreversible brain damage. Annabel is in a period of calm. She doesn't experience seizures, many of her symptoms have been stable over the last 6 months and she is able to attend a typical school. But everyday life is a struggle and children with AHC in similar periods of stability have died unexpectedly, some in their sleep, fueling her parents to fight day and night for a treatment to stop this disease in time for their daughter and the others like her around the world.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>10.24.2024 In the Frost family, life revolves around Annabel. Her parents' time and energy go to caring for her and giving her the attention she needs, while at the same time fighting to fix her genetic condition. Her mother Nina stays up until 2am, putting in the hours to work toward a treatment, then wakes at 6am to get Annabel up and ready for school.  But perhaps the hardest thing Nina and her husband Simon face is the guilt and sadness of giving so much of themselves to Annabel and worrying that there isn't enough to give to their older daughter, Clara. This same guilt weighed heavily on me every day as I carried Mila around the house, spoon fed her food and helped her go to the bathroom, with Azlan in the room next door, alone, playing with his toys. On top of the loneliness, Clara watched her grandmother decline and die of cancer, all while watching her sister have episodes and need rescue medicines. For Clara, growing up like her friends isn't an option. She's had to grow up quickly, worry that her sister is more important to her parents than she is, and live every day with the uncertainty of whether Annabel could die at any time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>10.29.2024 Despite, or perhaps because of, the struggles that Annabel faces every day, she has a unique ability to connect with people, often others who have lived through trauma or pain. An unspoken understanding. A gift of making people who cross paths with her feel good. She has brought these people into her life, into her family's life, and many of them have remained close. Perhaps Annabel found these people, or perhaps they found her. And what they share, often, is the perspective on life that can only come from difficulty and pain. And the appreciation of the little things in life that make everyone around her, especially her family, smile.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11.01.2024 When Annabel was a baby, she would have episodes of plegia where she would be paralyzed for days. Now, these episodes make her body limp, her words stuck and her response to life slowed down for hours on end. When she falls, her dad Simon is there to catch her. He tries to give her space so she feels independent, but he and his wife Nina live in a constant state of waiting for disaster to happen.   Simon finds himself in a delicate place between survival - being ready to catch his daughter at any time - and proactively working with his wife and scientific team on treatments in a fight to save Annabel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11.19.2024 Raiden Pham is 4 years old. When he was just a baby, he was diagnosed with UBA5 disorder, a rare neurodegenerative condition affecting the brain and muscles. There are less than 50 children in the world with this diagnosis, more than 10 of which have already died from respiratory system collapse, seizures and disease complications. Raiden's parents, Linda and Tommy Pham, wake up every day and balance surviving with racing against time for a treatment that could save their son's life. Like in the case of thousands of rare genetic conditions in children, the only hope for Raiden lies in the hands of his parents. But to make it to a treatment requires more than the already impossible task of raising millions of dollars and putting scientists together. It means keeping Raiden strong enough through a regimented routine of meals, water, medicines, exercises and machines, and up to 5 therapies per week during working hours. All of this responsibility falls on two working parents with little to no extra help.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11.21.2024 To survive each day, Raiden's parents always need a plan. They don't have the luxury of just waking up and letting the day unfold. Every few hours they have to ask themselves, "Did we feed him?", "Did we give him water?", "Did we give him his medicines?". And even though they are juggling their jobs, their other child and putting dinner on the table, they can't rush with Raiden or he vomits and could aspirate.  It's hard to imagine adding anything more to Raiden's life or to their lives, but they live in fear of the day that he begins having seizures, something he hasn't experienced yet, but is only a matter of time with his disease. And so they do the only thing they can... take each day at a time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11.26.2024 Raiden's parents were high school sweethearts. They married, had their daughter Jordyn, then a few years later their son. But just as their new life as a family of four began, the dreams of their future were shattered when Raiden was diagnosed with a life threatening genetic disease. Instead of watching their children play together and dropping them at school in the mornings, they work from home so they can take care of their son, sometimes needing to rely on Raiden's 70 year old grandfather to help out so they can get their work done. But he's aging and can't lift Raiden or feed him, so they spend their time together on the bed.  For Tommy and Linda, it’s hard not to close their eyes and imagine what could have been.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11.27.2024 Jordyn tries to play with her brother, but Raiden can’t talk or walk and has limited ability to use his hands. So she often turns to her parents and asks “Will you play with me?” But they have little to no time or energy left as they struggle to stay on top of their jobs, taking care of Raiden or getting groceries and everything else they need. Jordyn has learned she just has to wait. For millions of families like ours, the heaviness we live with every day is not being able to be there for our other children. Sometimes Linda and Tommy sit and watch videos of Jordyn, the best years of her childhood, the ones they’ve missed, the ones they desperately want to live and experience all over again.  They can’t get those lost times back, but can do everything in their power to start a genetic treatment for their son that gives him a fighting chance, while at the same time pausing to take in the little moments when their children interact in the ways that they can.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>12.04.2024 Linda wakes up every morning and tries her best to push reality away, block it out. Staying focused on her work and raising money for a treatment for her son doesn't feel like a choice. It feels like survival.  As she and her husband Tommy race against time to work with scientists on a treatment and raise the massive amount of money to support the work, they also juggle caring for their son, working from home and spending countless hours every week on calls dealing with insurance and medical providers.  Raiden is growing, but he can't stand or sit and his neck muscles are weak, so they take turns holding him while they work, resting his head against their shoulders so he can look around, feel engaged in life and smile.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>02.12.2025 When Rosie was little, she learned to say "daddy", "mommy" and "outside", her favorite place to be. She struggled to walk. When she finally got on her feet, she wobbled down the street, pushing her tiny lawnmower, looking up to her dad Casey McPherson with pride, and smiling. But she lost her only words and her walking continued to be unsteady. She began covering her ears in fear and screaming. And she never made it out of diapers or attended a typical school. When she was 3, she was diagnosed with HNRNPH2, a rare condition with a bleak and unknown future.  Today, Rosie is 9. She spends most of her time at her dad's house, her mom's, and her small school, as loud and busy places normal families would go are too overwhelming for her. She wanders the house in silence, picking up stuffies and jewelry in her sister's room, opening living room drawers and removing the contents, and taking eggs from the fridge and throwing them on the floor.  Casey has spent the last 4 years fighting for a cutting-edge genetic treatment for Rose in hopes of bringing back even a few words, or giving her the ability to wind a toy on her own or sit on the toilet. But what he's fighting for most is his daughter's ability to connect with the world around her. He watches her stand alone on a playground longing for interaction with the kids who run past her. And he sees how she fills that void with animals who connect without words and do not judge her. And so he has lived in the country where he can surround Rosie with pigs, goats, chickens and dogs. And while he fights for her, Rosie can find that special connection.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>02.13.2025 As a single dad of two girls with completely different needs, Casey struggles to take care of Rose while still giving his older daughter, Weston, the attention she deserves. Rose needs to be dressed, bathed, given water and food, given her medicines, and have her diaper changed. Weston wants to tell her dad about school and her friends, do art projects together and have him listen to her favorite songs. She wants to go to the movies, play soccer or take a trip. But Wes' needs always seem to come second as Rose is fully dependent on her dad. After a long day of work and school, Casey sits at the piano with Rose, allowing music to so beautifully connect them. But his joy is balanced with the pain of knowing how alone Weston feels, always aware of where she is and how she has had to entertain herself since Rosie was diagnosed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>02.18.2025 For Casey, each day can feel like survival. Taking care of Rose's basic needs and constantly cleaning up her trail of toys, books and food thrown around the house can push him to the edge. But at the end of each day, he has their nighttime routine to look forward to, a little window when Rose calms and connects with him. After dinner, Casey holds Rose's hand and they walk slowly up the stairs to the bath. She plays with the bubbles and holds her cup under the dripping faucet, smiling up at him. Then he picks her up, wraps her in a towel and swings her onto the bed, bouncing onto the pillows, her laughter filling the bedroom. He grabs his guitar and sings her a song, "Rosie, Rosie, what are you thinking…”. She looks into his eyes and bounces on her knees in excitement. He pauses, letting her play the next verse on her harmonica, and they go back and forth until she lays her head on his chest and sticks her thumb in her mouth. This little moment of connection at the end of each day, the music they compose together, makes all of the hard stuff worth it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>02.20.2025 Without a treatment, what will Rosie’s life look like? As she ages, will she continue to depend on the cartoons and movies she’s watched as a toddler for connection with the world around her? Will she be able to feed herself and know when to go to the bathroom? Will she be able to live independently or fall in love? Will she survive to adulthood? And if she does, who will take care of her when her parents are gone? These are the uncertainties that drove Casey to leave his music career, the one he worked on day and night for 25 years, to fight for his daughter. As a lead singer and song-writer who pushed through life under the poverty line to form a successful band, sign major record label deals and watch his songs become top hits, he now finds himself pulling from that same grit and determination to learn drug development, raise the millions needed and put the scientists and doctors together to create a new business model for rare disease treatments that relieves the burden of hope that falls so heavily on families like his. Casey dreams of a brighter future for Rose where real relationships take the place of cartoon faces on screens, and a model of access that offers the same future to other Roses across countless diseases like hers.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.10.2025 Nearly 5 years ago, I started my photo campaign, This Is Today, to allow you into the closet of my hopes and fears. It started with black and white unstaged photos of Mila, Azlan and me. When Mila died, I expected to stop, but realized it was this part of the journey that gets lost in the story of rare disease - life alone without your child. So I continued. With time, we expanded the campaign to include families facing other diseases, in other cities and homes. Each family is unique, but the weight of life and death is nearly the same. Today, we’re trying something new - short videos we hope complement the photos.  We’re starting with the James family who so graciously allowed us into their life. Two of their 4 children, Maya and Xavier, could have been any other child until they were each 9 years old, and then they were hit with Batten CLN2 disease, a degenerative condition no one survives.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.11.2025 Maya and Xavier were just like other children until they were 9 years old. They were running and laughing and playing with other kids. Then they were diagnosed with Batten CLN2 disease and their parents were told they would lose their abilities and die. Suzette and Beau go to the end of the earth to make their children feel equally loved, but ultimately everything ends up being about Maya. Sitting by his older sister who now needs 24 hour care, Xavier seems like an almost typical teenager. He's still independent - goes to a normal school, helps feed the animals on the farm, volunteers at a summer camp. But he knows that life isn't fair and that he too will soon be like Maya.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.14.2025 When Maya was little, she was the fastest kid on the playground. At 4 years old, she zipped around on her bicycle with no training wheels.  Today, at 22 years old, she is unable to walk. Batten disease has robbed her of her speed. Life goes on around her, with people moving and running and going, and she just sits there in the middle. Because that's all she can do.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.16.2025 I could never justify telling Mila that she would die in childhood. She was so young and I was fighting for her life. But Maya and Xavier were older when they were diagnosed with Batten disease and their type is slower progressing than Mila's. They were given the gift of more time, but the unfathomable understanding of what's happening to their bodies and brains.  Both siblings receive a regular enzyme replacement therapy which offers hope of slowing their condition, but Maya is older and started when her disease had already begun to take over. Xavier is mostly stable for now, but faces the heavy weight of his own mortality and that of his sister. He leans down to help his mom lift Maya onto her feet, taking on some of the enormous strength needed to get through each day, trying not to dwell on the faces of their healthy childhood smiling down from the walls that surround them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>07.18.2025 "We've been on this journey for over a decade now. The hardest part right now is watching my kids' peer group advance. Maya's friends who are wrapping up college. That's hard. That's probably the hardest part. I see Maya's resilience and her strength, and I'm so fortunate for where we are, but you just also wonder, 'Wow. What would you be studying now? What would your college experience be like?' That's the hardest part right now and that's the part I wasn't quite ready for, but it's part of the journey right now." - Beau James</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>09.23.2025 Amara is 9 years old and has FOXG1 syndrome. She has never said a word in her life, forcing her parents and siblings to guess when she's hungry, tired or sick. They've learned to adapt, but that's only one aspect of her disease they all live with. Amara has seizures, many small ones throughout the day, and refuses her seizure medications unless she’s held down. Her family tries to live a normal life, but big seizures hit when they least expect it, turning a short walk to the playground or a drive to the beach into a medical emergency that risks Amara's life. When the rescue medicines fail to work, the ambulance arrives. This unpredictable fear is not an exception, this is their norm.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>09.24.2025 For Nasha and Oliver, their biggest fear is what happens to their daughter Amara when they die. Amara doesn't speak, she can't feed herself, put on her own clothes, or go to the bathroom alone. Her parents, her sister and her brother take turns helping. But when Nasha and Oliver are gone, where will she live and who will take care of her? When she's a grown woman without the ability to speak, who will make sure she's not physically abused? Will that burden fall completely on her siblings as they try to live their own lives, with their own families to care for?  With Mila, I lived in fear of what life would be like without her. But for families like Amara's, their fear is what their children's lives will be like without them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>09.26.2025 I started the photo campaign 'This Is Today' to convey the weight of rare disease on families around the world - a small window into their lives. This week, I've shared snapshots of Amara who faces FOXG1 Syndrome. The photos are powerful, but they don't capture the subtleties of the emotions that fill her life and her home. And so we made this video...</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>10.03.2025 Like I did with Mila for so many years, Nasha fights to keep up hope, to stay positive, to raise the enormous amount of money and bring the scientists and doctors together to create a treatment for her daughter’s disease. But it's in the quiet, exhausted moments when she looks down at Amara and allows herself to wonder what her daughter's future will be? Will she remain confined to her small world where making friends is not an option? Will the fight be in time, seeing Amara receive a treatment before a massive seizure hits with no warning? And if Nasha and Oliver’s Herculean efforts actually change her daughter's trajectory, what will their life as a family look like?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>10.09.2025 For Nasha, Oliver and their two typical children, they only know a life of extreme and often conflicting emotions that can change from one minute to the next. Immense love for Amara, immense sadness for what could have been, immense helplessness in the scariest of times, immense fear of what turn life might take that day, immense exhaustion, immense determination to give their daughter a second chance, immense drive to turn everything they are living through into a way of helping other families like theirs.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>01.27.2026 Quincy is 11 years old and has a genetic condition called Angelman syndrome that robs her of normal development, making speech, movement and learning an every day and every minute challenge. Quincy's only real friends are her sisters. She speaks with her eyes and connects through touch, but when she's pushed to the limit of frustration, and doesn't have the words to express herself, she may pull their hair. She tries to make friends at school or on a playground, starting with soft noises and giggles, often staring at them for a response or even reaching to them for that touch and connection. But kids often don't understand and lose patience, and so they walk away.</image:caption>
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