Ansel Lurio, 38, disability advocate and subject of the book “Moonrise,” died of heart failure Tuesday, September 27, at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Ansel—named after the photographer Ansel Adams—was a vibrant part of his Yonkers waterfront neighborhood and before that of the Dobbs Ferry community where he grew up. At age 3, after developmental lags, he was diagnosed with Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, a devastating disease that destroys muscle tissue and causes early death He used a wheelchair from the time […]
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