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“Even when my legs were numb, I kept dancing.”

At 23, I was exhausted all the time. The running joke was that the other dancers would always say to me, “Good night, Grandma!” because as soon as we got on the bus I was out. Other symptoms came on gradually — I felt numbness in my legs, and when I put my chin on my chest I would feel this crazy electrical sensation, like shocks running down my spine. At first I thought

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