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Carlos Briceño

Carlos Briceño is a journalist and director of communications who, through the grace of God, has been blessed with a brilliant, beautiful, and courageous wife and daughter. He currently lives in Maryland, about a half hour away from Washington, D.C., with his wife, Jill. In 2018, Jill found out she was gene-positive for Huntington’s disease at the age of 41, while his daughter found out she was gene-positive for HD in 2019 when she was 22. Jill and Carlos write about their day-to-day struggles and triumphs to share their knowledge and to let others know they are not alone. Carlos loves to evangelize, read, play soccer, and pepper his conversations with — according to family members —really bad puns. (For the record, Carlos thinks his puns are really punny and funderful.)

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Articles by Carlos Briceño

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The Real World Is Precious

On May 21, 1992, MTV aired the first episode of “The Real World.” The introduction to the show went…

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Forced Family Time

My wife, Jill, and I live in Illinois, where the governor has declared a stay-at-home order for our entire state.

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The Realities of Rare Diseases

Social distancing seems to be the trend these days. Several reality shows illustrate what I mean: participants practice social distancing…

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Believing in the Impossible

When she was little, my daughter, Alexus, visited a 7-Eleven store with my wife, Jill. To reward Alexus’s wonderful…