Cheese and Expertise: Fixing Kora Jean’s Duodenal Atresia

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Story Summary

As far as Kora Jean Amedio is concerned, cheese is its own food group. The one-year-old didn't get her love of cheese from her mom, Tiffany, taking after her dad Elijah in that way.

Tiffany strongly dislikes cheese, but she had such a craving for it during pregnancy she ate 10 cheeseburgers in one week and hasn’t eaten one since her daughter was born. Instead, Kora Jean inherited mom’s sassy, headstrong, independent personality.

“She’s stubborn, determined and just goofy,” Tiffany said. “A duplicate of me. She laughs at everything and has this smile that makes me cry sometimes because it’s so cute. She changed me. She changed my whole life.”

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