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This is the case when it comes to rare disorders that a very small population of the world suffers from. Often they are devastating conditions, with horrifying symptoms you wouldn’t wish on anybody and no remedy in sight. They’re conditions that we can’t bear to imagine having, yet we can’t tear our eyes away from the victims who endure them. Take the “Tree Man,� who has a rare form of human papillomavirus that causes his skin to grow like bark. Or, a victim of progeria who begins to rapidly grow old during childhood. We observe at length as documentaries on rare disorders follow these people around to show us what their lives are like, and inform us about what is happening to them.

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