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“I started realizing how vast and various nursing opportunities are. There are so many different things you can do,” he says. “I didn’t think any other profession would give me that.”
The quilts, and the shirts they came from, are also a reminder of how far she’s come and how fortunate Sara has been since her first diagnosis in 2006. Each shirt is another event, another year, another victory.