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Ryan Thomas, 5, has AIDS, infected by a blood transfusion shortly after birth. Every other week he spends five hours receiving gamma globulin treatments. Ryan has become a celebrity in his hometown of Atascadero, Calif., where his parents won a court…

The reality of facing himself appears more and more each day, according to his mother. He’s comfortable with himself, but he wants other children to be comfortable and accepting too, and when they aren’t, he becomes inward and reserved,…

Stevie and his mother are unusually close, says his mom. Whenever Stevie goes through tough times at school or at the doctors, his mother is there to comfort and support him. Since the fire that engulfed his crib and disfigured him when he was eight…

Sometimes the taunts and teasing from other children make Stevie a little shy. Acceptance of the condition he has known since he was an infant isn’t easy to come by and often makes him feel like an outcast.

Although Stevie appears to have worked out some of the ways of dealing with taunts and teases from other children, he is still alone at times and when he can’t find other children to play with him either because of his appearance, or because…

Like most children his age, Stevie is out to impress the girls, like classmate and neighbor Johanna Lopez, who Stevie tries to impress with his incredible hulk imitation. She appears baffled not by this looks, but by his behavior.

Although he started out the race with a friend who challenged him to see how fast he was--a little slow--Stevie caught up to and beat his challenger, “just to show ‘em I could beat him.”

Just like other 9-year-olds, Stevie loves a trip to McDonald’s where he isn’t too shy to look over the counter to make sure the clerk is ringing up his and his buddies order correctly.

The story of Stevie Jacques is the story of how a little boy copes with effects of his disfigurement. It it not the story of a burn victim. The fire that scorched his body happened eight years ago when he was an infant. Without the aid of his…

Some parents in Hunting Park are afraid to let their children out on the street due to the violence. This girl is looking out on North Eighth Street between Venango and Tioga.