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Hope Lodge in Rochester

I was grateful again today that I could meet people who has beautiful mind through I4k.Today we met this beautiful lady Carol who has spent 8 months at Hope Lodge. She was about to get her treatment and we could talked to her for a while before her treatment. We were looking at the map which shows where their patients are from. She pointed Florida where she is from. She came up to Rochester to get treatment according to her physician's recommendation. She was spending time here with her husband who is her caretaker. She said how beautiful her hometown in Florida is. She thanked what we are doing and was close to tears and so was I.Every time I meet this people, they thank us and I think that how lucky we are to meet these wonderful people. All we can do for them is to do what we have been preparing for a year and keep rolling. They don't know how much they inspire us and we appreciate them telling us their stories. I would love to thank all people that told us their stories.