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Learning to walk again. Struck suddenly last October with a rare disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome, which produces muscle pain and weakness, Sean(...)
Learning to walk again. Struck suddenly last October with a rare disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome, which produces muscle pain and weakness, Sean(...)

Learning to walk again. Struck suddenly last October with a rare disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome, which produces muscle pain and weakness, Sean(...)

Date4/23/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Learning to walk again. Struck suddenly last October with a rare disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome; which produces muscle pain and weakness; Sean MCDonald; 3; is able to walk again with help of nurse Frances Somerville at the Hospital for Sick Children.
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