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OP-ED: Growing Up in Liberia With Sickle Cell Disease

OP-ED: Growing Up in Liberia With Sickle Cell Disease

One day while I attended high school, my teacher punished me by sentencing me to kneeling in class for hours. As time went by, I began to feel intense pain in my body, triggering what is known as a crisis. I knew that if I continued in this position any longer I could collapse or even worse.

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