“1 1 7 7 8,” Jared wrote in his diary. “I wish this had been the combination to my hockey locket, or bike lock, or even to my school locker. Instead, it was to be the combination to a genetic mutation at nucleotide position 11778 that would unlock the disease in my body at the age of eleven and would ultimately change my life forever…. Blind, what the hell was blind? I’m eleven years old. I’m a hockey player. I dig chicks, and they dig me. I’ve got a lot of friends and no worries. Blind? What do they mean I won’t be able to see? Not be able to see what?… Just fix it, Dad, and let me go play
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