Living with sickle cell a tough road

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Samantha Cohen, 8, has big ambitions, and she isn?t going to let a genetic blood condition keep her down. “I want to be president, and I want to become a doctor, and that?s pretty much it,” she said. “Oh, and I want to become an actor, but that?s it.”

Sickle cell anemia doesn?t bother her, she said with an eight-year-old?s bravado.

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