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A JOURNEY IN BLACK AND WHITE: Lee Thomas details his struggle with vitiligo in a new memoir.
Byline: Julie Hinds
Oct. 31--For a while, Lee Thomas admits, he was an "angry spotted guy."
The Fox 2 (WJBK-TV) reporter, who's known for his upbeat entertainment coverage, is usually a happy-go-lucky presence on the air.
But a few years ago, Thomas was hit hard by the progression of a disorder called vitiligo, which destroys some or all of the pigmentation that gives skin its color.
A low point came while he was doing a story where preschool kids tested out a new playscape. When a little girl stared at his hands, which had turned about half white but were dotted with splotches of his natural brown color, she burst into tears.
The moment stuck with him. After he finished work, "I went home, I washed my face and I just sat there for thirty minutes, just trying to get it together," says Thomas. He thought to himself, "Wow, you scare small children."
These days, Thomas, who's 40, talks about that incident like someone who's arrived at a good place but who doesn't want to forget the road he's traveled to get there.
His new book, "Turning White: A Memoir of Change" ($14.95, Momentum Books), is an intimate look at his journey since his diagnosis during the mid-1990s. It's…
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