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Aug 27, 2008

Local Family Launches Global Effort for Disease Awareness

Some of us on staff here at DCist are unrepentant video game nerds, so we couldn’t help but notice this posting yesterday on the gaming site Penny Arcade about Marissa, a 9-month-old Annandale, Virginia, resident who was diagnosed with a rare pediatric condition called Infantile Spasms (IS). Marissa’s dad, being a gaming fan like us, sent the guys at Penny Arcade an e-mail asking if they could take one of Marissa’s three stuffed bunnies named…

 
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