The Remarkable Life and Death of Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis

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3 min readMay 30, 2019

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He wasn’t supposed to live past the age of seven.

On Dec. 4, 1961, Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis was born in Glendora, California, and was initially thought to be a perfectly healthy baby. It wasn’t until an X-ray technician noticed a slight cranial anomaly when he was 18-months-old that doctors began questioning what was wrong with the adorable little boy. What started out as…

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