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Blue Butterflies, Miracles, Real-Goal Setting Strategies for Kids and Other Learning Opportunities

 

By   Kevin Stoda

 

 

In preparation for my Junior High classes this week, I came across a DVD called THE BLUE BUTTERFLY (2004).

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313300/

 

As I watched the first minutes of the film, I could not believe that the tale was even vaguely based upon a true story, but I was wrong.   Apparently, the film is, indeed, based on the life of a the Quebec-born, David Marenger, who at the age of six was diagnosed with cancer and given only a few months to live.

 

http://www.bluebutterflythemovie.com/about.html

 

In 1988, MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION offered to grant the young David Marenger a final wish.

 

http://www.wish.org/

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