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Lonely diseases: The miserable patients Kenyans wish they could forget

The calmness on Queen Kwamboka’s face as she strolls around her Kayole Estate neighbourhood in Nairobi to kill boredom one evening is deceptive.

The 48-year-old woman’s heart bleeds with loneliness, low esteem and the stigma of neurofibromatosis disease -- a tumour that grows along a nerve in any part of the body.

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