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    Family :: One Mother’s Journey

      September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, did you know that? What did I know about cancer in 1993? My grandma had breast cancer a few years earlier, but she was “old”. I adopted special-needs kids; surely my kids wouldn’t have to worry about something like cancer, right? Well, much to the chagrin of the pediatric neurologist who overlooked all the signs, my oldest son, Drew, developed brain cancer. Few people remember that Drew died at age 9 as a result of medulloblastoma, one of many brain cancers found almost exclusively in kids.   Suddenly I remembered a boy named Jimmy dying when we were in middle school. I remember…