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From: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: February 14, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: By LYDIA WHITFIELD

CHRISTINA Evans, 27, is looking forward to her school's 10-year reunion in April, but is also apprehensive of what her peers will make of her having been in a wheelchair for the last five years.

Christina, who lives in Cardiff Bay, was in the early stages of muscular dystrophy when she was at Aman Valley Comprehensive School, Ammanford. Her older brother Anthony, 42, also has the muscle wasting disease and Christina says: "It's going to be weird. When I was in school, I was still walking. Lots of people at home knowI'm in a chair now, but some ...

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