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May 14, 2014 11:23 pm GMT
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'Cancer Doesn't Have Me': Teen Raised $5 Million for Charity Before His Death
The first time Stephen Sutton walked out of a hospital after being diagnosed with cancer, his surgeon told him to go home and get some rest, so Sutton went back to his house, grabbed a curly wig, found a wheelchair, and rolled around a costume party dressed as a granny.
"Because of how much weight I'd lost and because of how thin and pale I was, I was pretty convincing," Sutton said in a video describing his life since his official diagnosis in 2011. "By the end of the night, I'd been pushed around in front of a conga line in my wheelchair, having an absolutely fantastic time. This was me ... making a statement of how I was going to overcome my illness." Read more...
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