IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The summer before Seth Barton’s freshman year of high school, he needed a routine physical exam.
“Both of my kids were sitting on the exam table, and our doctor walked in the room and almost immediately was like, ‘Hey, there’s a problem here,’” remembers Seth’s mother, Jodie.
Their local doctor noticed that Seth was shorter and weighed less than his sister, Amilia, who is three years younger.
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