Dear Pediatric Cancer

Dear Pediatric Cancer, 
   I’mwriting you on behalf of the students at Penn State, to officially inform youthat we are an extreme threat to your cause. See, us Penn Staters, we like toplay fair. So before we knock your feet out from underneath you, we’d like tojust give you a warning first. 
The thing is, we’ve been watching you, and we’ve seen howyou work. You sweep in and pray off the innocent lives of children (yourrelatives aren’t so nice either) and threaten to take them away. You’re just sosneaky; sometimes it’s hard to catch. We try not to let you get away with it,but sometimes you do. We’re working up ways to catch you in the future.
It’s not fair that you think you can just come in here andclaim lives’ from kids who haven’t experienced anything, yet. It’s not fairthat you harm their parents, who just a few short years ago were blessed with amiracle that you’re greedily trying to steal away. It’s not fair that yourequire such a battle in order to surrender – a battle that leads to hair loss,infection, pain and vomiting. Why do you enjoy seeing little girls lose theirhair?
See, these kids have so much potential. They have baseballgames they haven’t played; school plays they didn’t star in. They want to playand fight with their siblings; they want to turn 16. They have boyfriends andgirlfriends and soul mates waiting for them. They want to get their license;they want to go to prom. They have hopes and wishes and dreams, and you have noright to take that away from them.
They also have parents; parents who found themselves blessedwith the kind of miracle only parents can understand. Parents who see futuresfilled with success, happiness, and love for their sons and daughters. Parentswho are hurting, badly, for how can you make them watch their kids battle afight that most 50-year-olds aren’t strong enough to battle? You truly make mesick.
Well, you may be getting away with it now, but I can assureyou millions of people are fighting against you. Thousands of Penn Statestudents are dancing this weekend to kick your ass. We’re going to raisemillions of dollars to put towards finding new ways to assure your methods fail. It justgoes to show that you can’t steal all the fun – we’re still going to dance. Soare the kids you are trying to take away from us. For this weekend, you can’ttouch them. Don’t worry, they’re in good hands. 
The problem is, we can’t figure out how to stop you… youseem to powerful. No one stays king forever, though, and I promise you we aregoing to do everything we can to stop you. So I’d watch out. Take your grimy,greedy grip of life off our amazing children. I assure you, if you don’t, we’llfind a cure and you’ll be gone forever. 
You’ve been warned, Monica
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