Justice Sotomayor: Childhood Diabetes 'Taught Me Discipline'
By MARK SHERMAN 06/21/11 03:32 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was seven years old and living in the South Bronx when she found she was thirsty all the time. Soon after, she started wetting her bed at night.
"I was ashamed," the 56-year-old justice said, as she related how she came to learn that she has diabetes. The audience for the unusually personal glimpse at a justice's life was children who are diabetics, like Sotomayor. And the reason she met with them Tuesday in a Washington ballroom was to assure them that their common affliction is no bar to doing anything they want.
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Justice Sotomayor: Childhood Diabetes-The Huffington Post
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