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For the Love of Charlie

For the Love of Charlie
Charlie Prior, who was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, at the age of 3. Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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MANLIUS, New York—When Charlie Prior’s second-grade teacher asked his class to illustrate how their family spent their summer, the 7-year-old didn’t hesitate to use the box of crayons in front of him to draw a picture of the fire tower his family climbed in the Adirondacks to overlook the mountain range in northeastern New York and the sun setting along the ocean at Cape Cod.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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