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HASTINGS, Mich. — Beneath a pavilion in Bob King Park, Katelyn Howard flipped through framed pictures of Noah Howard Hall, her nephew who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer last month.

“This is when he was a bit younger, of course,” she said, presenting a photo of Noah as a toddler. “But he’s adorable.”

On New Year’s Eve, doctors discovered a tumor in Noah’s brain. He’d been having headaches for weeks, even vomiting at times.

“The time between the scan being done and the sound of the doctor rattling the door knob were the last peaceful moments before the painful truth,” Howard wrote in a short essay titled Noah’s Story.

The soon-to-be seven-year-old went into surgery and around a third of the mass was removed. A follow-up scan, however, revealed the high grade glioma had tripled in size. Terminal.

“The hardest thing we’ve ever heard in our lives,” Howard wrote.

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