Word: dfmc
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...weeks before the 2001 Boston Marathon, my friend’s mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and my heart broke in that same way. Instead of punching walls, I found myself on the phone with people from the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC), a group of about 400 people who run Boston every year and collect pledges for a research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The combination of blind anger, frustration and college can-do-it-ism convinced me that I could finally do something about this disease that kept invading people’s lives...
...raised about $5,000 from friends and family and slogged through the 26.2-mile course with the 2002 DFMC team, feeling better for the first time in ages. One month later, I’m just as angry as I was before...