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Getting your head around an illness, whether it is yours or a loved one’s, can be hard. It is even tougher for kids.Now, a new children’s book ties a disease commonly found in New Mexico to one of the state’s favorite Christmas traditions: making biscochitos.
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New Mexico is one of only two states in the U.S. that has an official state cookie. Lawmakers so designated the biscochito in 1989, but the cookie was a tradition in New Mexican households long before that.
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There’s a new children’s book to help kids understand a genetic disease that disproportionately affects New Mexicans. “Biscochito” tells the story of a grandmother with Cerebral Cavernomas baking the state cookie with her grandson.