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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Lily Raff / The Bulletin
January 25, 2009
Summer Stiers can remember subtle signs that, even as a child, her body was different.
Rough ridges in her fingernails. Small, peg-like baby teeth that remained in her mouth long after her classmates lost theirs. Her lack of physical stamina.
At the time, she and everyone around her paid no....