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Rare affliction unites boy in search of a friend
Hallsville Texas AP Mickey Hays a nine year old with progeria the rare aging disease meets Fransie Geringer a similarly afflicted boy from Orkney South Africa Fransie is coming to visit Disney World and Disneyland in a bid to meet another child who looks like him both boys live with the daily ridicule from peers and adults researchers note only about 8 million children suffer progeria and fewer than 100 cases have been documented since 1886 the article traces the boys experiences and longing for companionship amid a harrowing condition
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Hallsville
Texas
Mickey Hays
Mickey
Fransie Geringer
South Africa
United States
Disneyland
Disney World
Fransie
East
England
Cindy Edwards
Christie
Orkney
Magda Geringer
Hallsville, Tex