| Ashlyn and an elderly woman in her late forties are heaping the dinner table with food. |
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| The rush of adrenalin pumped through her veins, and Ashlyn raced toward Winnie and Rey's room. |
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| Ashlyn: Mommy must've ate a bad hot dog! Tara: When I was pregnant with Ashlyn, I was eating ballpark hot dogs and got sick. |
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| When Ashlyn was 5, the Blockers decided the only way they were ever going to find another person in the world like her was to send up a flare. |
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| The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly At school, Ashlyn Blocker was once asked if she was Superman. |
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| Jeez, Ashlyn, is it impossible to believe he accepts you now? |
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| The tests revealed that Ashlyn had inherited two defective copies of the SCN9A gene, which is known to be involved in the transmission of nerve impulses in pain-sensing neurones. |
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| Teenager Ashlyn Blocker, who lives with her parents in the US town of Patterson, Georgia, feels no pain and is one of a small number of people in the world who have been diagnosed with congenital insensitivity to pain. |
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