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Mikey’s Song
By: Mike Turpin
New Canaan News – Review
September 11, 2008
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir
It was a gorgeous Indian summer day when I heard the news that Mikey Czech had passed away. It was the kind of day Mikey Czech would have loved – warm, breezy and perfect for New England Patriots football. Mikey was 11 years old and had been battling a brain tumor for months with extraordinary courage and resolve. Over the course of the spring and summer of 2008, Mikey had become his generation’s Johnny Gunther Jr. demonstrating with every step, breath, treatment, and remarkable milestone, that the size of one’s body has no relation to the size of one’s heart.
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 This was to be a story of triumph. It was to tell of Mikey Czech’s return to school, his battling back against his brain tumor, his desire to be treated just like everyone else.
“Treat me like Mikey,” his father, Stephen, related a few weeks ago. “Don’t treat me differently.”
Instead, this is a tribute to a brave young boy who touched the lives of so many, and who leaves a legacy of courage and hope.
Mikey died Sunday, at the age of 11, watching the pregame show for the first weekend of National Football League games, wishing he could be on the gridiron.
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