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“So I went to the doctor. We had all the tests done and a few weeks later he told me she had Friedreich’s ataxia, a disease that only a few people had in New Zealand, and that her life expectancy was about 21 years.” SUPPLIED Lindy Bennett and her “bestie”, dad Steve, about the time she was diagnosed as having Freidreich’s ataxia. Steve told Lindy she had the disease, a genetic degenerative disease that kills nerves and tightens muscles, but he didn’t mention the doctor’s prognosis. “How can you tell a 9-year-old they’re not going to live long? But at school she had a c...