De Pere teen shows strength in rare disease battle

By Heather Graves Correspondent DE PERE – For the past nine years, 13-year-old De Pere middle school student Lily Laurent has fought a battle within herself, one many know little about. Laurent has juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), an autoimmune inflammatory disease where her body’s immune system becomes confused and starts to attack the joints, causing …

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