A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (Or, Exactly Fifty): It Looks Like a Crime Scene, But ...

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What I see: A child's legs covered in red dust -- chalk? -- surrounded by red confetti

What I feel -- deeply relieved that my initial impression of blood was wrong, and then further thinking, "What if this is a different kind of life or death situation?"


Rojas loved red and orange.

His family made a red piňata full of red candies and confetti on a day of red and orange fireworks.

He just lay down in all of it to enjoy … last birthday … but then St. Jude Hospital called.

Cancer wouldn't win. Rojas would.

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This is the best last birthday ever! For ext year the parents can start breaking their brains.

Can't wait until cancer loses forever! A great story as always :)

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