“I was diagnosed with cancer (leukemia) when I was eight. ... To this day I don’t know half of what other kids know, but I’ve learned that you have to keep on going... and that is exactly what I am doing ...my friends have helped me and I owe them that. Playing the piano has made me feel like nothing was wrong with me. Those were the worse years of my life... If I’m a bit strange it’s because of the three years of the blues.”

by Zoe Hall
6th grader at Hardy Elementary School in 2003