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Griffin Moores – Gitner Family Award Winner

Getting ready for his first day of kindergarten, Owen Wright, 5, brushes his teeth with his father, Dan Wright, in Grand Blanc, Mich. on Sept. 4, 2012. Two months after Owen was born he was diagnosed with achondroplasia, a disorder of bone growth that causes the most common type of dwarfism.