11-Year-Old Battles Breast Cancer

11-Year-Old Battles Breast Cancer

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I watched this morning and was brought to tears, not only at the random horror of a child having contracted breast cancer through environmental causes but also at the the wonder on her face when The dolls were brought out to her as a gift. To me, it's very rare, even in genuinely tragic situations that I see guests on morning news programs who aren't trained to either hold back their vulnerability or to somehow use it to manipulate the viewer's sympathies. Hannah is just a regular little girl facing the most unimaginable odds, a disease which is associated primarily with adult women, before she has even become and adolescent! But you can tell that her spirit and imagination are very much in tact. For me, spirit and imagination are fragile and empowering things that make life worth living.