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Kathleen Castro

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New York, NY

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September 1st, 2000 is a date that Kathleen Castro will never forget. She was 19 years old, and supposed to move back to college the next day to be roommates with her best friend. Instead, Kathleen had to call her roommate and say she had just been diagnosed with cancer: Hodgkin’s lymphoma, stage 2A. What followed was four months of chemo and two weeks of radiation, and then, finally, remission. Years passed; two beautiful daughters were born, and cancer was but a distant memory. In 2010, Kathleen had almost forgotten about her experience, but realized how much a part of her it had been. She wanted to give back; to support those going through a similar fight. An Internet search turned up The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light The Night, and Kathleen signed up to fundraise. She wants everyone to have the same outcome that she did, “…and until then, let’s be relentless for a cure.”

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