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By David Emery, About.com Guide to Urban Legends since 1997

Wanted: Your Prayers for Katie Fitch

Thursday August 14, 2008
A chain email circulating since the end of June asks for prayers for Katie Fitch, a 3-year-old girl in South Carolina suffering from hepatoblastoma, a form a liver cancer primarily found in young children. At last report, her tumor was shrinking thanks to aggressive chemotherapy, though the family also attributes Katie's progress to the prayers of online strangers. Read more...

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