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“Brooke Greenberg has celebrated 12 birthdays according to the calendar and her family photo albums. In terms of growing up, however, she has yet to reach her first. To the mystification of the medical world, Brooke is frozen in time, a real-life, female Peter Pan. She weighs 13lb and measures 27 inches, and looks and acts as if she were a six-month-old baby, not a girl about to become a teenager.

She simply does not age. ‘There is no diagnosis. We don’t know what is going on,’ said the family’s doctor, Lawrence Pakula, ‘There is no one else like her in the world.’ He describes her as being the equivalent of between six months to 12 months old in terms of height and weight, and says that most doctors who see her compare her to ‘maybe a handicapped two-year-old.’” article

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