His grandmother had died, and so we had been talking about her being in heaven, ... And I said to him, you know how you've been talking about Nana a lot? Well, Nana may be coming down to get you. And he said, 'No, Mama, no. Don't talk about it.' And so we never mentioned it again.

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We were so sad, and we missed him so much, ... There was something about not seeing him for a year that was really hard. But I said to [his three brothers] that probably we shouldn't be feeling so sad because Killian's an angel now, and very happy. And I thought was should focus our attention on helping other children with cancer.

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Doctors were hovered around, watching his every move and every monitor. There were so many, they had to stand in the corridor.

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