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I'm a thirty-one year old diabetic in Austin, Texas. I diabetes at the age of seven. We lived in a small town and it was the early 1970s. Home blood glucose monitoring was still in the planning stages, the DCCT trial was two decades away, and management of diabetes was primitive by today s standards. Though my parents worked tirelessly to ensure that my condition was under the best control possible, I look back now and realize all that should have been done differently.