My longtime friend Gretchen and her husband Cliff have two children.  Gretchen keeps me laughing regularly on Facebook by sharing the astute observances of those two kids, Raef and Gwyn.  While I did know a bit about Raef’s health complications, I learned quite a bit more about his journey, his challenges, his victories, from this article that Gretchen and Cliff posted on cnn.com.  I just knew Raef as a young man with a great sense of humor, but of course, there is always more to the story.  

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1150261