Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disease that impacts more than 100,000 Americans. There is no cure for the disease and median life expectancy for those with sickle cell disease is between 42 and 47 years old.

Samuel Boykin Hunter Jr. was born in 1970.

It was not long thereafter before his parents realized something was not quite right with their first-born baby boy.

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