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The Complicated Aftermath of Gary Coleman’s Sudden Death

The Complicated Aftermath of Gary Coleman’s Sudden Death

Originally appeared on E! Online Gary Coleman had a hard life, one marked by great success but also heartbreaking struggles. Yet it was a life that the Diff’rent Strokes alum planned to keep living. “I haven’t had the highest highs and the lowest lows yet. I’m still looking for that,” Coleman told E! News in January 2010. “I got 40 …

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A 13-year-old had chest pains. A rare disease meant he was “close to sudden cardiac death.”

A 13-year-old had chest pains. A rare disease meant he was “close to sudden cardiac death.”

When Dr. Brittany Clayborne’s 13-year-old son Micah came home from school in December 2023, she asked him if he wanted to play football outside. It was one of his favorite hobbies. But Micah said he couldn’t.  “He said, ‘My chest hurts,'” Clayborne recalled. “I was like, ‘What do you mean your chest hurts?'”  The words were terrifying to Clayborne, who …

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