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Parents need to know that Five Feet Apart is about a budding romance between two teens in treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease affecting the lungs and leading to severely shortened life expectancy. Though the book is essentially a romance, larger issues of how serious illnesses affect families and the different ways patients ...
Mar 13, 2019 · The new Y.A. movie, Five Feet Apart, follows two 17-year-olds, Stella (played by Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (played by Cole Sprouse), who both have cystic fibrosis, a genetic life-shortening ...
Mar 28, 2019 · Published in Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital - Spring 2019. Five Feet Apart is a feature film that recently debuted in theaters. This romantic drama is about two star-crossed teens who each have cystic fibrosis, and who fall for each other despite an illness that necessitates they maintain physical distance due to the risk of infection.
Mar 13, 2019 · While Five Feet Apart isn't exactly based on a true story, the movie was inspired by the experiences of those who have this very real disease, which affects 30,000 people in the United States and ...
Feb 6, 2019 · Five Feet Apart, a young adult novel co-written by Rachel Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Laconis, tells the story of Stella Grant, a 17-year-old girl from the USA with cystic fibrosis who has been in and out of the same hospital her entire life. This is not unusual for people with cystic fibrosis, who are susceptible to lung infections. They also usually have gastrointestinal and ...
Five Feet Apart acknowledges the hard truths of fighting a losing battle—the depression, the anxiety—and it captures the joyful junctures of this chronic illness alongside the hardest moments ...
For Alyson —R. L. We dedicate this book, and the movie, to all the patients, amilies, medical sa, and loved ones who bravely fight the battle against
