In the tender sprawl of this book on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a story unfolds—not just of science and grief, but of human ties stretched thin yet unbroken, like sagebrush clinging to a wind-swept plain against all odds. It whispers of families cradling children whose muscles falter, of the quiet ache and fierce hope that define their days, and of breakthroughs—ELEVIDYS, clinical trials, the steady hands of DMDfund.org—pushing back against a relentless tide. Social media, for all its restless din, becomes the riverbed where these voices rush forth, swift and wide, turning isolation into a shared cry, statistics into faces, and summoning a community from silence. Here, the 40% of cases born of de novo mutations remind us this shadow could touch anyone, while advocacy’s labor—policy, funds, the dream of a cure—gains wings on digital winds, cutting through indifference like an ax through underbrush. In a world once bound by the glow of neighborly fires across vast distances, this network now lights the signals, binding us to a tale that demands not just to be read, but to be felt, fought for, and carried forward together.