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For some children battling illness, a Make-A-Wish moment often brings dreams of far-off vacations or meeting a celebrity. But 16-year-old Addie Oberhouse wanted her wish to go beyond her. “I had two tumors, and then I started chemo two weeks after that,” Addie said about her battle with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.Addie’s journey began near the end of her sophomore year when she noticed a lump on her neck.
“Then throughout the summer, I was realizing just how alone I guess I felt because I didn’t know anybody that was my age that was also feeling the way that I was, just because all my friends, you know, they were all able to do what they normally do in the summer and I wasn’t,” she said.Her experience inspired her wish: Teens Against Cancer—a day for teens facing cancer to connect with others who truly understood their journey.
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