Three-year-old Novaliegh Snodderly carries oxygen, not toys, in her cute, panda-decorated backpack. This young girl from Athens, MI deals with Pierre Robin Sequence, Stickler Syndrome, and Digeorge Syndrome, yet she smiles with worry-free joy. When a smiling Nova stepped on stage at Shakespeare’s Lower Level in Kalamazoo, MI for Project Cypher VI, a hip-hop-for charity-concert for which she was the guest of honor, she took the breath away of everyone standing before her. When they recovered, they chanted her name with an enthusiasm worthy of the most important person in the room. |THIS.

[Photo by Kaw-Boi | Written by Mr. Joe Walker]

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