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2007 Team Picture - Raised almost $30,000!
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This website was created to up help in the fight against cancer by the family and friends
of Tina and Mary Martignetti. In August 2005 our family very much felt the effects of
this disease when Mary lost her battle with cancer. The ripple effect of this event
resonated throughout our family and got Tina motivated to rally her family and friends
to do their part in the fight against cancer.
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The ripple effect has only gotten greater with the loss of Tina, our hero, on July 1st, 2007.
It has taken us a long time to come to terms with the fact that she isn't physically here with
us anymore - but we will never say she lost her battle. The ripple she created has reached even
you, the new friend and fighter in the battle against cancer. Her memory is still so alive in
all of us and her dream even stronger to find a cure and save precious lives.
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When asked "Why I Relay" Tina's response on May 7, 2007 summarizes what was in her heart, and
the hearts of many who participate in Relay for Life:
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"I Relay because I truly believe there will be a cure one day. I Relay so that people will not
have to go though what others, my mom and myself have gone though. I have been fighting cancer
for ten years and I have personally seen the benefits of the research. At the beginning of this
year I was told there was only one kind of chemotherapy that I could use, and a couple of
months ago I was told there are now two more treatments that could benefit me. Since I have
been on chemotherapy for the last seven years I have seen first hand how the research has
really benefited me and others.
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I Relay for my family, because without them none of this would be possible. Each and every
one of them has been there for me every step of the way, the love and support I get from
them makes me the luckiest person on earth and that is why I fight so hard.
I Relay for the ones we have lost, the ones still fighting, and so no one else will have
to experience this disease called cancer."
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For 10 years Tina battled this horrible disease. She stood toe to toe and fought it head on.
Never backing down, never giving up.
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Tina taught us the greatest lesson of accepting each day as a gift - and to take nothing for
granted, because you didn't know what tomorrow would bring. She brought a whole new meaning
to the phrase, "Live each day as if it were your last." And she was the perfect example of
"Living life to the fullest."
Mahatma Gandhi once said, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Who
better represented this but Tina? Selfless acts of kindness and love is what she was all
about. She never thought of herself before others. She never said a spiteful thing about
anyone she ever met and everything she did was straight from the heart.
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Family and friends, we are all connected through Tina, and our responsibility for being so
blessed to know this girl, is to pass on everything Tina stood for to everyone we know.
She would say, we are the reason she fights so hard, but in retrospect it was Tina - that
pushed us all! She made the decision to lead the Walkin' Raviolis' and motivated all of us
to join. She was our spiritual leader, our inspiration; she was the person we all strive
to be like.
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That is why you are reading her story right now. We must never forget all she has given us and
all she has taught us. We are passing on her gifts by keeping her spirit and the fight alive.
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