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Don’t be afraid to dream – even in the face of sickness and death. Such is our human condition and such is the theme, brilliantly and poignantly portrayed by Lisa Genova in Inside the O’Briens. The O’Briens are a middle class, Boston Irish family, facing the genetic crap shoot that is Huntington’s Disease – an always fatal, degenerative illness, carried on a gene that children have a 50/50 chance of carrying. How Joe O’Brien, a middle-age Boston Policeman, his wife, Rosie and their 4 children fa
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