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Charlotte Rose from District of Columbia

Age: 8

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Charlotte was diagnosed with diabetes in 2007 at age six. Now eight, she still feels different from other kids, and has worked hard to raise awareness about the disease. Her Walk team, Charlotte Rose’s Champions for a Cure, raised more than $25,000, and they won the best t-shirt award. Charlotte really loves soccer, but she also does ballet and gymnastics. She’d like to be an actress or a soccer player when she grows up. She was a mushroom in the Washington Ballet’s Nutcracker, and she had to manage her blood sugar backstage. “My parents think that with more funding for stem cell research and other studies, a cure will happen within my lifetime. My doctors agree. But this is not soon enough. I think a cure should happen before I am a teenager, when diabetes gets harder. When I first got diabetes, I told my parents that I was too young to have diabetes and that it was too scary. I asked them to make it go away. I am almost never scared anymore—I am healthy and strong and I have a lot to say about why we need to find a cure.”

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