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Ohio woman with disease takes 'each day as it comes'

When Jen Johnson told her future husband about her Diamond Blackfan anemia, he didn't know what she was talking about.

Jen didn't look ill. How bad could the disease be?

"I don't think at that time I fully understood what it was and what it all entailed," Jim Johnson said during an interview in the couple's living room, with their Jack Russell terrier, Lulu, dodging in and out of the...

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