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When Olivia Roman was a pre-teen, she started to notice alarming changes in her digestive system.
Every time she ate, she felt sick. She had no energy, and began throwing up after nearly every meal. Then she started losing weight.
Roman was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at the age of 11, and spent her early teenage years relying on an overnight feeding tube to manage the painful, incurable digestive condition.
“At school everyone’s having lunch and
