Grab ya Kleenex for this one folks… Ontlametse Phalatse is a 12-year old girl that has been diagnosed with the aging disease known as progeria. Doctors give her only two years to live but the young girl from South Africa has dreams to be a psychologist. Phalatse says, “So that I can work on the problems of other people and so that they can accept the way that they are because they can see that I accept the way I am.” She calls herself the first lady. “I call myself a first lady because I’m the first black child with this disease … Which other black child do you know with this disease?” she said. Read more at HipHopWired
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First Black Child Diagnosed With Aging Disease [Photos]
