Dear Prudence video: Genetic disease kept a secret.

Help! My Aunt Won’t Tell Her Son He May Have a Fatal Kidney Disease.

Help! My Aunt Won’t Tell Her Son He May Have a Fatal Kidney Disease.

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Dear Prudence
Advice on manners and morals.
July 9 2014 1:46 PM

A Genetic Disease Kept Secret

My aunt won’t tell her son he may have a fatal kidney disease.

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In this week's video, Prudie counsels a man whose troubled nephew has never been told about the dangerous genetic disease he was born with.

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