Carly Ruhnke On The Importance Of The Little Person Community
Always Looking Up
08/08/22
•58m
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In this week’s episode I sat down with Carly Ruhnke. Carly is a little person with Morquio A syndrome and founder of the Little Carly Foundation. We discuss the moment when we realized we were a little person in an average-sized world, what it is like to attend an LPA national convention, and what it means to us to be with our community whether it is for a weekend or a week.
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This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin
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This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin
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