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Kansas City 10-year-old with juvenile arthritis creates artwork to raise money for research

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By Kelly Eckerman Verified
| KMBC-TV (Kansas City, MO) Verified
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For most 10-year-olds, painting is a fun hobby. For Grace Miller, it's also a way to tell her story. Grace loves to draw, color and paint. She especially loves sea otters. But behind every piece of artwork is a challenge many people can't see. She has lived with juvenile arthritis since she was 5 years old. "It feels like you just got punched a lot of times. And it hurts so bad," Grace said. Explaining what she experiences isn't always easy.
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By Kelly Eckerman Verified
| KMBC-TV (Kansas City, MO) Verified
“It’s really hard to be in a classroom and know that you smell, that’s miserable for anybody.” That reality is at the heart of the Giving the Basics’ Spring Showers campaign—a community-wide effort to deliver 300,000 hygiene items to students in more than 500 schools. Because for many kids, things like deodorant, shampoo, or clean clothes aren’t guaranteed.
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Teen artist with arthritis paints for a purpose in local fundraiser

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By Kelly Eckerman Verified
| KMBC-TV (Kansas City, MO) Verified
Fourteen-year-old Hudson Norman doesn’t just love to paint; he paints with purpose. Diagnosed with juvenile arthritis at the age of six, Hudson is one of several young artists participating in Art for Arthritis, a fundraiser for the Arthritis Foundation that pairs children living with arthritis with professional artists to create original artwork for auction.
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