Robin Scholz
Amy Armstrong holds daughter Larkin on Friday at Christie Clinic in Champaign. In the background are runners, from left, Matt Markell, Liz James and Kelly Schaudt. Christie Clinic's Run for the Health of It will benefit a new facility in the planning stages to be named after Larkin, who has developmental disabilities.
Amy Armstrong remembers the very moment it came to her, why it turned out to be her daughter – the child she and her husband, Andy, longed so much to have – who was born with disabilities.
Call it a voice whispering inside her head.
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