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She moves in perfect time to the music and sheer joy is etched on her face as she dances across the studio.
“And it’s all thanks to my positive attitude,” Chantell Hewitt says. “Without it I wouldn’t be dancing today.”
Seven years ago life was very different for the 38-year-old from Bloemfontein. Neurofibromatosis, a rare condition also known as the Elephant Man disease, had ravaged her face, and her right eye was completely obscured by an egg-shaped tumour.
