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Stephanie and Joanna
Stephanie and Joanna

Brittle bones

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Wendy and Bill Whitelaw have three daughters. Natalie is 16, Joanna,19 and Stephanie has just turned 21 - and they all have brittle bone disease. Between them, they've broken their bones over 150 times.

Reporter Kim Normanton went to visit the family in North London.


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