November 28, 2012
For Sandy Devitt-Mascari, going to school was a way to live out her dreams and a reason to get out of bed while she was going through intense chemotherapy treatment.
“I had come to the realization that I had to decide whether or not I was going to let cancer define who I was, or if I was...
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