After Ryan Van Zandt of Fairfield, CT was identified with uveal melanoma, he devoted himself to serving to others affected by most cancers whereas coping along with his personal prognosis. Ryan accepted Most cancersCare’s invitation to function keynote speaker at a 2010 fundraiser on the Nation Membership of Fairfield, and his inspirational speech was instrumental in elevating greater than $325,000 in a single evening in help of Most cancersCare’s free companies.
In January of 2016, Ryan handed away at 25 years outdated. Throughout his memorial service, Ryan’s mom relayed that, earlier than his passing, she had requested him what a very powerful factor he had discovered in life was. Ryan’s response? “Be type.”
Ryan’s shut good friend and co-worker, Danielle Murphy, determined to honor Ryan’s spirit of generosity by making a youngsters’s ebook primarily based on the particular bond she shared with Ryan known as “Be Sort: A Story of Bella and Muffy.” “Ryan was a canine individual,” Danielle explains, “and I’d typically ship him images of my cat Muffy to attempt to convert him right into a cat lover. He ultimately admitted to liking Muffy, however not earlier than getting a brand new little pet named Bella. Bella and Muffy turned the idea for many of our weekly texts. My youngsters’s ebook follows a canine and cat duo who remind us to at all times be type to 1 one other.”
All proceeds of ebook gross sales of “Be Sort: A Story of Bella and Muffy” help Most cancersCare’s free companies and applications. You should purchase a digital copy by way of Amazon Kindle ($9.99)right here; and buy a print copy for $15 by emailing Danielle.r.pugliese@gmail.com. So far, proceeds have raised almost $2,000 in help of our applications and companies.
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