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Knees

NPR
Published November 3, 2002 at 10:00 PM MST

Commentator Elissa Ely remembers a girl from high school who desperately wanted to be in with the 'in' crowd but would never be accepted because suffered from severe psoriasis on her knees. Now, Elissa realizes, that girl's hopeless yearning mirrored her own. (2:30)

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