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Teen with mitochondrial disease raises funds for elevator at church

Georgia Headlines August 14, 2018 Albany Herald 0

There was hardly a dry eye among the crowd gathered Friday at Porterfield United Methodist Church on Dawson Road to honor Curt Poer, 13,... Teen with mitochondrial disease raises funds for elevator at church

There was hardly a dry eye among the crowd gathered Friday at Porterfield United Methodist Church on Dawson Road to honor Curt Poer, 13, a boy who refuses to let a rare form of mitochondrial disease, which has confined him to a wheelchair for nine years, dictate the terms of his life.

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