Evelyn Ho is a senior at Plano Senior High School, just 20 minutes from my parents’ house. The summer before her sophomore year of high school, her grandfather died of Parkinson’s disease, and her grandmother was diagnosed with the disease. “I saw how it affected our family dynamic and how we had to work with that and around that,” says Ho. “I remember something my mother said at my grandfather’s funeral. She was talking about the kids—the ones younger than me—and she said, ‘they never got to see your grandfather healthy; they were born too late.’ That stuck with me.”
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