ALS: The muddy road

The day my youngest brother would have turned 60 was the day that Scott Kelley died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease at 62. I met Scott Kelley, a geologist, at church over a decade ago. We had several things in common, and, pretty quickly, I became good friends with him. Two natural questions came up when he came down with ALS—“why Scott?” and “why now??...

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