Produced by the I-Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston.

Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Andrea Aswahueh. And I'm Yasminammer. This week we're going to throw it back to one of our favorite

episodes from 2016. It's the story of two friends, two young boys, and their determination to do something that seems

almost impossible.

Make sure to stay tuned after the break for an update on what happens next.

Now, here's the story. I have to take off my shoe and I break myself and

blood comes out. It's my blood sugar tester.

Sometimes it's kind of like annoying

when kids just stare because they just don't know what it's about.

That's Jonah Purnizarian.

His classmates don't fully understand the liver disease he has that could be fatal.

But Jonah's friend, Dylan Siegel, responds differently.

Dylan, like, he doesn't really really stare he just talks to me and we just laugh together

and it's really fun.

Dylan is nine years old now but this story starts three years ago when the boys were in first grade.

Dylan's mom, Deborah Sekel, was driving her son home from Jonah's house,

when she explained

explained there was no cure and doctors needed money to find one.

I'm like, oh my God, I want to help.

And I said, great, I love that. Do you want to do a bake sale? Do you want to do a lemonade stand? He's like, no. He looked

to me like I was insane. What horrible ideas? Later that night I was putting him to

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