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Teen Inspires a Nation

by Brick ONeil

smiley-face.jpgTeen shares positive thinking, courtesy of cnn.com, showcases this teens battle with cancer. He doesn’t let it get him down, and the public has latched onto his blog.

From the article:

“He nods supportively when his pals brag about their college acceptances and throws a gentle arm around a girlfriend who has ringlets of long, brown hair. But at night, this 18-year-old blogs from a world as sobering as his chalk-white skin and shiny bald head.

“All that stressing about which Ivy League they’d be going to while I’m stressing about whether those suspicious scans meant cancer and The End or not,” he writes. (Watch how a teen facing death shows others how to value life )

“That everyone would be moving on to the next stage of life … the whole College Experience … onwards to young rising professionals and newly weds and fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers and retirees … but my life ends here; this is my stop, a couple months short of graduating high school.”

His bloggings, posted on his hospital Web site at http://www.carepages.com/ (register, then type LevinStory) have reached well beyond the world of high school.”

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