Mickey Hays (from Texas) and Fransie Geringer (from South Africa) meet at a hotel room in Disneyland. Both suffer from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. He brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak. Fransie died in 1986, aged 16 years.

Mickey Hays (from Texas) and Fransie Geringer (from South Africa) meet Mickey Mouse and Pinocchio in Disneyland. Both suffer from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. He brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak. Fransie died in 1986, aged 16 years.

Mickey Hays (from Texas) and Fransie Geringer (from South Africa). Both suffer from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. He brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak. Fransie died in 1986, aged 16 years.

Mickey Hays and his mother. Mickey suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. He brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak.

Mickey Hays at school. Mickey suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. He brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak.

Mickey Hays at school. Mickey suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. He brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak.

Mickey Hays at home. Mickey suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. He brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak.

Mickey Hays at home with his grandfather. Mickey suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey Hays eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. Hays brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak.

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