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Meet Samantha Welsh

Virginia Regional Support Group, Awareness Ambassador

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Samantha Welsh is an MDF Awareness Ambassador and Co-Facilitator of the Virginia State Support Group. She works as a church educational director, serving children, youth, and adults. In her spare time, Samantha enjoys gardening, exercise, and baking. Her husband, Jay, who lives with adult-onset myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), provides excellent quality control for all their baked goods. The couple lives in beautiful Front Royal, Virginia, with their two cats, Fred and Ginger.

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