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The family where mother, son, two daughters have lost their legs

Ruth Wairimu and one of her children. [Silas Nyamweya, Standard]

For Ruth Wairimu, happiness is an alien term. The 38-year-old-woman is only familiar with sorrow.

Wairimu suffers from condition she doesn’t understand that has seen her legs amputated later in life to save her but consigning her to a wheelchair.

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