It was a celebration of life near the bandshell in Central Park where close to 1000 people gathered for the 19th Annual Sickle Cell Education and Awareness Walk.
Many of those in attendance have the disease like 65-year-old Donnette Carroll diagnosed when she was 25.
Outreach workers from the Sickle Cell Thalessemia Patients Network talked about what it is like to live with Sickle Cell.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of "The Adventures of the Sickler" will be donated to the Sickle Cell Thalassemia Patients Network.
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