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Nov 3, 2004

"Are there any boots to walk on thorns." His reply came back crisp and direct, "There are no thorns." Unsatisfied, I pursued, "The thorns are very much there for me!" With quiet patience he answered, "Stop looking for roses and there will be no thorns." --U. G. Krishnamurti

Five Year Old Without Pain

Ashlyn Blocker's parents and kindergarten teachers all describe her the same way: fearless. So they nervously watch her plunge full-tilt into a childhood deprived of natural alarms. Ashlyn, age 5, is among a tiny number of people in the world known to have congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, or CIPA -- a rare genetic disorder that makes her unable to feel pain.