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Tiffany Graham Charkosky’s memoir ‘Living Proof’ details her family’s struggle with a genetic bad luck.

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Bad luck. That concept comes up repeatedly in “Living Proof: How Love Defied Genetic Legacy,” a memoir by Lakewood author Tiffany Graham Charkosky.

It was bad luck that she was only 11 years old when her mother died at age 30 of colon cancer. Bad luck that her brother had been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.

Was it bad luck that her uncle died at age 46? Just before Jeff died, he had had genetic testing done. Six months later, Graham Charkosky’s father called to

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