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The skin-thin leather man, elastic like rubber
Gary Turner's skin is so elastic that he can turn his belly into a table and hold almost 2 liters of beer on it. The 41-year-old man has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare g…
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Gary Turner's skin is so elastic that he can turn his belly into a table and hold almost 2 liters of beer on it. The 41-year-old man has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare g…
Hollie Shaw, 7, suffers from a rare syndrome that makes her skin as fragile as a butterfly's.
Melissa Hughes, an 11-year-old English girl, suffers from an extremely strange disease called butterfly disease. With delicate skin that can tear and bleed if touched li…