After my coach found out everything I had gone through—he found out I had a six-inch tumor and was still running these times—he said, ‘I’m not giving this letter to you; you earned it,’.

Julie Mead

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Being a runner you’re so mentally tough and you’re used to enduring physical pain, i know this is going to be a long haul, but then again, races sometimes feel like they’re really long and you just keep pushing through because that’s what a runner does.

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Miranda makes cancer look easy. It’s anything but easy. What she goes through, people have no idea, but her attitude and her big smile, she just keeps putting one foot in front of the other, i asked her, ‘Do you ever get down?’ And she said, ‘Nope, we just have to keep going.’ That attitude makes it so much easier for everyone around her. She turns into the cheerleader for us.

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Some of these letters that they’re writing are so thoughtful and they’re funny, but they’re spiritual, these kids are just amazingly supportive. Cancer would be a pretty scary thing for anyone to understand and get their arms around, but these 15- and 16-year-old kids, they just jump in with both feet. They’re here to support her, they talk to her, they want to know what’s going on. It’s really been amazing.

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She told me, ‘It gets hard, but it will get better,’ she’s a really good inspiration because her times before cancer were really good, but after she defeated the cancer, her times are now a lot faster. It’s really encouraging to think that after I beat this cancer, my times will get faster as well.

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We spend way too much time in the hospital seeing very small children that are dealing with cancer and it’s a horrible thing. No one should have to go through it, it’s a huge community that has been helping us get through this.

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