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![Eight-year-old Zachary "Zach" Tucker, the son of Sherry Tucker, died May 9, 2006, after a 10-month battle with cancer. Her book, "Unfinished Love: Walking By Faith Through Pediatric Cancer," available online, "highlight's {Zachary's] courage, his determination, his optimism," Tucker said. "How he wanted to get through the treatments so he could be a normal kid again." Tucker said her son's attiude always was, "what's next and let's get it done." When the time came to tell her son that the doctors held no more hope, Tucker said her son said: "So, let's go for a golf-cart ride." In the last weeks of his life, Zach could not communicate. His mother, having learned that "the last thing he would lose is his hearing," continued to talking to him -- a lot. "I talked a lot to him about how we were all going to die one day. That we have to know God will take care of us, to trust Him, and know that we'll all be together one day." When she was able to talk to her son about the hereafter, Tucker said her son wanted to know one thing above all others. "How would I find him, that was his biggest concern," Tucker said. "I told him, 'It's all perfect in heaven and God has it figured out. That won't be a problem.' I told him, too, that 'what I understand is that time in heaven is so different than time on earth. When you get there it will be like a few seconds and we'll be there with you.' "](http://www.mypapernow.com/Other/Pottery-Patch-Hosts-Cure-Kids/i-mSkRJpp/0/Ti/DSC_0676-Ti.jpg "Eight-year-old Zachary \"Zach\" Tucker, the son of Sherry Tucker, died May 9, 2006, after a 10-month battle with cancer. Her book, \"Unfinished Love: Walking By Faith Through Pediatric Cancer,\" available online, \"highlight's {Zachary's] courage, his determination, his optimism,\" Tucker said. \"How he wanted to get through the treatments so he could be a normal kid again.\" Tucker said her son's attiude always was, \"what's next and let's get it done.\" When the time came to tell her son that the doctors held no more hope, Tucker said her son said: \"So, let's go for a golf-cart ride.\" In the last weeks of his life, Zach could not communicate. His mother, having learned that \"the last thing he would lose is his hearing,\" continued to talking to him -- a lot. \"I talked a lot to him about how we were all going to die one day. That we have to know God will take care of us, to trust Him, and know that we'll all be together one day.\" When she was able to talk to her son about the hereafter, Tucker said her son wanted to know one thing above all others. \"How would I find him, that was his biggest concern,\" Tucker said. \"I told him, 'It's all perfect in heaven and God has it figured out. That won't be a problem.' I told him, too, that 'what I understand is that time in heaven is so different than time on earth. When you get there it will be like a few seconds and we'll be there with you.' \"")
Leonardo "Baby Leo" Astacio, who is batting neuroblastoma, shows his playful nature at the Pottery Patch studio in Valrico, Fla. He was there Aug. 25, 2008, with his mother, Lori, and sisters, Livia, 2, and Lexus, 12, to help paint reward tiles for the Sept. 13 Cure Kids Cancer Challenge at Park Square in FishHawk Ranch, Lithia, Fla. The challenge for a "faster cure" is for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation .
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Leonardo "Baby Leo" Astacio, who is batting neuroblastoma, shows his playful nature at the Pottery Patch studio in Valrico, Fla. He was there Aug. 25, 2008, with his mother, Lori, and sisters, Livia, 2, and Lexus, 12, to help paint reward tiles for the Sept. 13 Cure Kids Cancer Challenge at Park Square in FishHawk Ranch, Lithia, Fla. The challenge for a "faster cure" is for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation .
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