Reporter’s notebook, kids, cancer, schools
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- April
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Alexa Luiso and Christi Marraccini, both 17-year-old Harrison High students, were very frank when they spoke to me about how cancer affected them—both their older sisters were diagnosed with leukemia.
They spoke about how the school rallied around both their sisters—Toni Marraccini as an elementary-age child about a decade ago and Amanda Luiso last year—and how they relied on each other for immediate support when everybody was taken up with the older girls’ illness.
“When I first found out, it was hard for me to get back into the school mode. There’s six of us at home. I feel we came together as a family. When I came to school, I couldn’t take my mind off of what was happening at home. I was worried about my grades falling—junior year is very important, it’s the most important year. I wrote my college essay on just getting through everything, ” Alexa said.
“That Monday, just going into school, I didn’t even want to come,” she said. “We would break down during periods. We went to meet with the psychologist and she explained this was a hard time, it’s going to be hard to come to school. We’ll get through it together.”
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