In a suburban town named Traverse City in Michigan, Alisha Wilson, a 16 year girl, was working miraculously hard to find a cure for Hodgkin's Lymphoma which is a type cancer. When she was just 5 years old, Alisha's mother was diagnosed with the same disease and it was stage 4. Throughout Alisha’s whole life, she has watched her mother trying to balance on a tightrope. When Alisha had been just 13 years old, she decided to start researching the Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Since she turned 13, she has gone through many design processes and has done more research than any student could ever imagine. For 3 years, Alisha sat on her bed every night trying to create the perfect design for her cure. Even when her bedroom faced the gorgeous Lake Michigan,
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She was so overwhelmed with such a euphoric feeling that she burst out crying and laughing. While trying to put her curly brown hair back, she scrambled downstairs to tell her mom that she had finally found a cure. “MOM! MOM! I FINALLY FOUND A CURE!” Alisha screeched at the top of her lungs as she approached the living …show more content…
Have you emailed any of the local reporters that you work with on my design?” Alisha questioned. “Are you kidding me! Your mother just died and that's all you're worried about!?” Mr. Wilson snapped. Alisha quickly got ready and rushed out of the house about to burst into tears. She wasn't going to go to school since her mom had just died, but she had to because she couldn't handle her dad. Ever since her mom died, her dad had been angry at everyone. As she walked to school, she started to cry thinking about her mother. When she got to school, she only talked to Caitlin. Everybody else tried to talk to Alisha but she just brushed them off because she needed space. In her second period class, Mr. Bennetts classroom, she noticed something unusual; she noticed a model of her design. “Caitlin. That's my design right there. How did he get that? The only other place I worked on the design besides my house is Mrs. Wright's classroom” Alisha whispered cautiously so that Mr. Bennett should not hear
She was so overwhelmed with such a euphoric feeling that she burst out crying and laughing. While trying to put her curly brown hair back, she scrambled downstairs to tell her mom that she had finally found a cure. “MOM! MOM! I FINALLY FOUND A CURE!” Alisha screeched at the top of her lungs as she approached the living …show more content…
Have you emailed any of the local reporters that you work with on my design?” Alisha questioned. “Are you kidding me! Your mother just died and that's all you're worried about!?” Mr. Wilson snapped. Alisha quickly got ready and rushed out of the house about to burst into tears. She wasn't going to go to school since her mom had just died, but she had to because she couldn't handle her dad. Ever since her mom died, her dad had been angry at everyone. As she walked to school, she started to cry thinking about her mother. When she got to school, she only talked to Caitlin. Everybody else tried to talk to Alisha but she just brushed them off because she needed space. In her second period class, Mr. Bennetts classroom, she noticed something unusual; she noticed a model of her design. “Caitlin. That's my design right there. How did he get that? The only other place I worked on the design besides my house is Mrs. Wright's classroom” Alisha whispered cautiously so that Mr. Bennett should not hear