When I wake up, I place my feet on the cool, hardwood floor, and I shuffle to the bathroom, I feed the cat, and make breakfast. I begin my day. A lot of us begin our days this way. By walking.

But not my brother, Gavin.

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Eight-year-old Amelia Bovais from Port Tobacco, Maryland, has a special bond with 14-year-old Abby Weinberg.

Interview with St. Albans, Vermont family.

A 7-year-old boy suffering from a rare disorder died on Sunday, one day after receiving the rare title of honorary Marine - and just shy of his eighth birthday.

When I was a college sophomore living in a sorority house at the University of California at Santa Barbara, my parents called to tell me that my baby brother, Gavin, was dying. He had been given a diagnosis of a very rare disease, Aicardi–Goutieres Syndrome.

The doctors immediately placed him in hospice care.

He was 4 months old.