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NY Jets Brought Montclair Boy Joy Before He Died: 'They Already Won In My Eyes' NY Jets Brought Montclair Boy Joy Before He Died: 'They Already Won In My Eyes'
NY Jets Brought Montclair Boy Joy Before He Died: 'They Already Won In My Eyes' In 11 months, Braylon Hodgson’s body crumbled. Mentally, he was the same 13-year-old boy: Happiest holding a lacrosse stick and surrounded by his friends.  Physically, he couldn’t move. Braylon’s body was stiff. He needed a walker to get around and was losing the ability to talk. His parents, Kasey and Ryan, felt helpless, and wished they could do something for his pain. But Braylon only apologized to them. “I’m sorry,” he’d say.  Sorry that they had to see him in pain. Sorry that they couldn't do anything about it. The Montclair middle schooler had no choice but to get used to the pai…

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by Cecilia Levine
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TRIBUTE: 'Brain Cancer Warrior' Josephine Palman Of Woodland Park Dies, 13 TRIBUTE: 'Brain Cancer Warrior' Josephine Palman Of Woodland Park Dies, 13
Tribute: 'Brain Cancer Warrior' Josephine Palman Of Woodland Park Dies, 13 When Josephine Palman was young, she donated her long hair to those battling cancer. The Woodland Park teen affectionately known as Pepa, died on June 5 at at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick after a battle of her own with DIPG brain cancer. More than $36,700 had been raised as of Tuesday morning on a GoFundMe for Josephine's medical bills. Josephine, an eighth grader at Memorial Middle School, was remembered as a brain cancer warrior, having fought for 16 months. "She fought and never complained, always believing she would defeat DIPG, because she loved …

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by Cecilia Levine