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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter five: Cancer ghosts
Mitchell Xayapraseuth gets the cancer news he was hoping for. His family expects he will go to the live at the Buddhist temple, a gesture of gratitude. Mitchell resists.
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter Four: The worth of a boy
The Hmong community gathers for the ceremonial sacrifice of livestock at Steve Vue's house. Mitchell Xayapraseuth awaits news about whether his treatment worked.
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter three: What spirits expect
Steve Vue completed his cancer treatment and his prognosis was good, but a shaman told his parents he still had a spiritual debt to pay.
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter two: Luck goes bad
A couple of weeks after his best friend, Steve Vue, was diagnosed with cancer, Mitchell Xayapraseuth's own mysterious health problems got worse. That's when doctors give him shocking news.
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THINGS HAPPEN
Chapter one: A bad feeling
CHAPTER 1 -- A BAD FEELING: In late 2011, Steve Vue, a junior at Service High School, was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer. A few weeks later, his best friend, Mitchell Xayapraseuth, told Steve that he was having strange, troubling symptoms as well.
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EXXON VALDEZ SPILL
Last push to find people owed money in Exxon Valdez suits
A settlement fund set up to pay plaintiffs from lawsuits stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill still has about $1 million left to disperse.
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EXXON VALDEZ SPILL
Court OKs sending former Exxon Valdez to India scrapyard
In a defeat for an environmentalist, India's Supreme Court has ruled that the ship that spilled millions of gallons of oil in waters off Alaska in 1989 can be recycled in the nation's biggest scrapyard.
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EXXON VALDEZ SPILL
Former Exxon Valdez remains controversial near its end
For the ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez, even sailing quietly into the sunset is proving difficult. It's floating off India in a kind of high-seas limbo as a court decides whether it can be hacked apart in a forlorn ship graveyard.
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