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‘I have chosen to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation through this book because it funds research in to finding a cure for type 1 – or insulin-dependent-diabetes, the disease that killed my son Charlie.’
Jon Henderson

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This book is dedicated to Jon Henderson's son Charlie, who died aged twenty-two as a result of diabetes.

‘He strode with gaiety and courage, contemptuous of care, along the narrow crumbling ridge from which he sensed he must inevitably fall, towards the castle of his hopes. We watched with fearful admirations’
James Henderson

The author is donating his proceeds from this book to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.



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