For Small Woman and Tall Man, Size Doesn't Matter

At 2 feet 9 inches tall, Christianne Ray, 20, is the average height of a toddler. "I can't reach anything in the refrigerator," she said. "It's a pain being a little person. It's a pain in the butt." A rare kind of dwarfism, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, severely affects Ray's spine and limbs. She grew up in a small town near Seattle and said that her friends and classmates always accepted her as just one of the kids. Outside school people, would gawk, but her schoolmate, 6 feet 4 inch... Full Story