Child Dying of Cancer Leaves Notes Behind

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	Child Dying of Cancer Leaves Notes Behind

wiccantexan

11-6-2009 11:27 PM

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11-7-2009 7:36 AM

ellesrainbow

beautiful story

their daughter didn't want her family to suffer from her leaving them.

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Brooke and Keith Desserich of Cincinnati, Ohio, were told their <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JustOneThing/story?id=6494966&page=1&page=1">daughter Elena</A> had 135 days to live. She beat her diagnosis by 121 days.
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But during that time, as she fought the cruelest form of <A target="external" href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/pediatric-brain-tumors/">pediatric brain cancer</A>, 5-year-old Elena left a powerful legacy.
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She began to hide little notes -- hidden in book shelves, CD cases, sock drawers -- for her family to find after she was gone.
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"The first time I found a note caught between books, I thought nothing of it," said Keith Desserich, 34, and an entrepreneur. "But then I started to find 20 to 30 notes, and wondered if there was something more to it. One -- 'I love you Mom and Dad' -- was packed in a bag of clothes put away for the winter."
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Soon, the family got calls from her grandparents, saying they, too, had colorful hand drawings from Elena. One aunt even found a note written to her chihuahua, which little Elena loved.
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