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'Absolutely Unimaginable': Leukemia Returns 11 Years After Saddle Brook Boy's Remission 'Absolutely Unimaginable': Leukemia Returns 11 Years After Saddle Brook Boy's Remission
'Absolutely Unimaginable': Leukemia Returns 11 Years After Saddle Brook Boy's Remission A grueling bout with leukemia was nearly a dozen years in a young Saddle Brook boy's past when it made a sudden and devastating return. At a time when Colin Stern and his loved ones should've been celebrating his 16th birthday, he was in the hospital. At a time when he should be learning how to drive and feeling comfortable in high school, they find themselves facing at least two years of spinal taps, radiation and more. The sudden blow "has changed the course" of the entire family's lives forever, wrote Peggy Dressel Pappas, who organized a fundraiser for them. Colin's mom "will have to …

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by Jerry DeMarco