Word: cancer
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...luminaria ceremony, which many participants said was their favorite part of the night, began with three speakers who recounted their personal experiences with cancer, continuing with a silent glowstick-lit lap around the track...
...Cancer is having a little brother who can’t play with me, a mother that breaks into tears with every piece of news, a father who’s so worried that he doesn’t know I exist,” said Wellesley student Jess Haladyna...
...pretty sure he has no idea about the countless nights I’ve cried myself to sleep,” Wellesley student Lisa Koplik said about her father, who is currently battling cancer. “I don’t think he knows how terrified I am that he won’t meet my children or come to my wedding or be around as I get older and need his help...
Later in the night, Wellesley, Mass. resident Laura Witheford discussed her mother’s recurring cancers, the three children she is raising whose mother died of cancer, and her own fight against breast cancer...
...There are still too many stories that do not have a happy ending, as my own children know all too well,” she said. “I am a mother with cancer, raised by a mother with cancer. May my children live in a world where that chain is finally broken...