Sonia receives her test results and the chapter includes an advertisement for Jeep Black Friday sales event, Viator travel experiences, and Intel EVO Laptops at Costco.
Sonia Vallabh had just lost her mother to a rapid, mysterious brain disease. And then, she found out that the disease was genetic. Doctors told her there was a 50-50 chance she had inherited the same rare genetic mutation that killed her mom. Sonia tells Maya how she managed a torturous state of limbo, and how what followed led her to the cutting edge of science.
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