Once a week, in the arid hinterland of 'Bahia state in northeast Brazil, Jose Pereira leads two of his sons, both of whom have the rare metabolic disease Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome, to an outpatient clinic next to the hospital in Monte Santo—a town of 50000 people famous for a stony holy walkway culminating in a chapel visited by thousands of pilgrims every year.
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