The little girl in this photo is turning 50 this month, but the man holding her won't be able to celebrate it with her because motor neurone disease (aka ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease) took his life on 27th October. As his baby sister, I was inspired by Dean's self-sacrificing wish to donate his body to research. So rather than giving me more mugs, socks, plants to kill, or random stuff to dust that I don't need anyway, please consider giving a gift in the month of December to help me honour my brother's memory and raise money for research so that other families don't need to suffer the same pain.

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