Athena Orchard was a girl of only 12 years who left a message so far secret, on the back of your bedroom mirror in which he sure that every day he reviewed his appearance, and to whom he might make some confidences of age. He has not only left a message but parents and brothers desolate by the lack. A few months have been enough for a terrible disease will take away his youth, and all his life. The lump they found in his neck was a tumor, its rapid spread caused him to pass out just before Christmas. The news had fallen like a jug of cold water on a large family that until then lived happily.
Athena lived in Leicester (United Kingdom), and courageously endured the treatment she had been given against osteosarcoma. Days after his death his father discovered several messages in the form of about 3000 carefully written words.
It seems that she was a very intelligent girl, and also in a way she was spiritual, judging by the phrases that remained as a witness to her process and her emotions. Talk about that happiness that only depends on us, on love as the prize of life, and the ups and downs in which what counts are the 'slumps' and then continue fighting and living.
It's a sad story, very sad a story about fighting the disease, and how Athena clung not only to her life, but to the expression of everything she felt.
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