Kevin lobello was a huge minecraft fan and got his final dying wish granted to see the minecraft movie early. His mum and crew stories moved heaven and earth to make this happen before time ran out. He got to watch the movie in a private screening sat next to the boy who plays Henry in the movie, he also got a call from Jack black and jason mamoa before and after the film. He loved it and can be seen smiling though the movie. Sadly he passed away in his mother's arms on the 12th march just 11 days after getting his final wish fulfilled. He suffered from a rare and very aggressive form of brain cancer that presents in children called DIPG . He bravely fought the disease for 16 months .He is now at peace and up in heaven playing minecraft with technoblade and free from what the terrible disease did to his body. I no child cancer makes people feel uncomfortable and sad , but this disease desperately needs more funding to help find a cure. The federal government only gives four percent to research for child cancer and put of that 000.5 percent goes to dpig and now that funding has been cut to zero. Though federal funded drugs Kevin's mum was able to get 10 more months with him before this terrible disease took him . So please if you can go to the website chadtough.org and donate anything you can just type in kevin lobello and donate in his honor. Or type in to Google for kevin and read on his website how you can help and share his Story.

He was just 9 years old , it's nothing really is it he was still a baby . He had so much to live for and this cruel illness robbed him .

After finding this story I've got to admit I cried for two days. All I could think about was how I was sat there excitedly making holiday plans , while this little boy didn't even get to make it to ten . I researched this disease and read the horrible reality these poor babies go through. Thankfully now kevin is free from his failing body and no longer in pain , but there is thousands of kids out there still fighting and getting diagnosed with this every day . In my home county England 90 children every year get given this death sentence . Neil Armstrongs daughter died of this and there have been some advances but not alot, most children just red radiation and steroids which change them beyond recognition. All these children and families get is whats called a honeymoon period after theyve completed there radiation when stuff goes sort of back to normal so the family can cram everything the child wants to do before it comes back more aggressive, but some children dont even get that. Please please share this and Kevin's story around , his brave mum wants his story shared. Search using the term #forkevin and #digp

Sleep well little man your legacy will live on even though you are gone , through those that loved you and in your minecraft world you spent so much time in

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Recently I was browsing through Facebook and saw a post from someone with whom I went to college. He was traveling from my hometown in Virginia back to my new town in SF (it’s funny because that’s his hometown and his new town in my old town). Anyways, when I saw that I thought “oh, I should have contacted him to grab lunch.” But the thing is, we were good friends really for literally one semester in college. He did have a strong impact in my life during that semester: we struggled through honors analysis homework together 2 days a week every week that semester. Then towards the end of the semester, when grades came out for that class, I told him I was too scared to get my grade myself (I really did think I failed -- I got a 50% on my final T-T). He picked me up at my dorm, and he walked with me all the way to the math building and waited as I got my grade. Thankfully it was decent, but I remember shaking a little and being so thankful for him. Looking back, I know that grade did not impact my GPA significantly and I am laughing at myself for having cared so much. At that time, however, it was just what I needed in a friend. Every time I remember him, I remember this moment: this comforting but short 30 minutes. 

Since that semester, he went to study abroad for a year and then senior year when we reconnected, we saw each other probably a total of five times. All positive experiences but nothing significant. A bit of me feels sad that I lost this friendship that provided me such comfort, but part of me knows that it was very much a moment of “right place, right time”. I’m such a victim of keeping in touch even when a friendship no longer has that same connection, so I am writing this post as a way to let go in a positive way. I will always remember him as having a small but very positive impact on my life.