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Barbie Has Autism

The first Barbie doll with autism just landed. She’s part of the diversity and inclusion campaign Mattel launched a few years ago.  They released the first Barbie with Down syndrome in 2023, and the first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes last summer.
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In Sickness and In Health

Staff at a hospital in Colorado organized a free wedding for a woman dealing with a devastating diagnosis.  Ali Gleason and her now-husband Bailey have been together 11 years.  She has a rare sarcoma that spread to her spine.  They got married in the hospital on January 2nd, two days after Bailey proposed.
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How to Save a Life

A woman in Arizona saved her husband’s life after a nasty motorcycle wreck last Friday.  She got an alert from his high-tech helmet that said it detected a crash, and it shared his location. She found him unconscious on the side of the road, in a spot you couldn’t see from the road.  If he’d been there overnight, he wouldn’t have made it. He’s been in a medically induced coma,…