Megan Rippie, who graduated from Milton High School this spring, has always been a mentor and support for her brother, who is two years younger and on the autism spectrum. “Tyler and I are very close,” she says. “He’s more like a best friend than a brother. We never bickered, growing up.” That

Eighteen-year-old Carolynn Lafountaine has survived a lot of medical complications in her young life. When she was three, she had open-heart surgery to repair a congenital defect – an event from which she has no lingering effects today. Unfortunately, Carolynn can’t quite say the same for a much