Babbette Jaquish's Sunflowers

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Babbette Jaquish planted sunflowers and sell the seeds to support the cancer research. She was trying to help herself and others who get cancer, even when she knows that her “body decling over the years” White. She was live positive by trying to do something to herself, her family, and people who get cancer, not sitting and let other feel sorry about her. It also shows how real love affacts others, her family continued what she started doing. also how people feel hurt by losing someone who they love. Her family Love is what holds everyone together. Love can make a lot of good things, family helping each other, helping others in the society to make their dream become ture. Love it is not just emotion to say it is also work to do. Her husband

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