In this village of 4,200 people, the clich is true. It's Small Town U.S.A., and everyone really does know just about everything about everyone else. How Wellington's MS rate was suspected and found Wellington is a small town where everyone knows everyone else. Regulars at Cecil's Diner on Depot Street congregate early in the morning. The population is substantially the same, give or take a few hundred.
Downtown has the same proud storefronts.
The same century mansions grace Main Street. But Terri herself has changed. Richard Korejwo is tired of hearing about clusters. Korejwo, who has a cybernetics doctorate, is a multiple sclerosis patient. He once studied the disease for the National Institutes of Health, but now he runs a Web site dedicated to MS patients and their experiences - and debunking clusters.