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Javon

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I’m not there [school] cause I have pain. It makes me lose where I’m at in school. [My friends] ask me what it is, and where did it come from. I explain the blood sickles, and it stops blood flow. It causes pain wherever it stops the blood flow.”

– Javon, 15 years old, SCD hgb SS

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