Ellensburg, Wash., is home to a truly unique young man: 12-year-old Brenden Adams, who is more than seven feet tall and, incredibly, still growing.

He towers over his classmates and even his teacher, Gretchen Holmstrom, who jokingly quipped, “I’m 5’9,” so I never look up to sixth graders — until this year…never say never!”

And though friends say Brenden is just a regular kid, he’s obviously not like anybody else. He has to duck through most doorways and sit sideways at his school desk because his knees don’t fit under it.

In his mom’s sport utility vehicle, he has to fold down the second row of seats, sit in the third row and stretch his legs out over the middle row in order to sit comfortably. His shoe size? 18 and still growing.

Brenden is one-of-a-kind, and it’s not just his height. Everything about him is different. His mom, Debbie Ezell, said he requires a team of doctors and multiple medical visits simply to stay on top of his ever-changing and expanding frame. He has enormous joints, fatty tumors, even extra teeth, 12 of which were recently removed.

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