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‘MY DAUGHTER DIDN’T EAT FOR 10 YEARS’

When Jemma sat down at the family dinner table and refused to eat, she wasn’t being rude nor was she being fussy. In fact, her peaches and cream skin and cheeky grin masked a serious health problem that, until recently, meant the 14-year-old hadn’t eaten in over a decade.

“Jemma has Coffin-Siris syndrome, a rare condition causing intellectual disability or delayed development of

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