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“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

“For just one minute and thirty seconds you are one with the dance, the music, and the stage. You are Irish Dancing. The walk-and-pant back to your spot is well worth the reward of having danced your best…I know now, after that, that you can never give up on your dream because one day you will be ready.”

by Isabella Boland
9th grader at School Without Walls in 2011