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          JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG —  The elfin child with the big personality and bright smile calls herself “the first lady” and dreams of the future.

          But doctors say 12-year-old Ontlametse Phalatse has only, perhaps, another couple of years to live.

          “I call myself a first lady because I’m the first black child with this disease … Which other black child do you know with this disease?” she challenged.

          Ontlametse is the sole living black child diagnosed with progeria, a rare and fatal genetic condition that accelerates the aging process, the Progeria Research Foundation said.

          It was aware of two other black children ever diagnosed with the disease, who died in the United States and the Netherlands.

          Nobody knows how many kids in the world have it, though experts estimate that between 200 and 250 children live with progeria at any one time.

          In a two-year campaign to identify them, the Progeria Research Foundation says the number of c