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A Short Story Of Johnny Gunther

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This tells the story of Johnny Gunther, who died on June 30, 1947, at only seventeen years old. His father wrote this to help others learn more about the effects of a brain tumor. Despite this, he loved to learn and even attended Harvard, where no one knew of his illness until a year and 3 months before his death. Also, this book offers a glimpse of his life before his illness and the decline that led to his death. According to his father Johnny’s death made a huge impact on the world, because letters came by the hundreds and his case was extremely rare as he maintained good eyesight and kept well right up to the point of death. In the months of his illness his family and medical team did everything they could to help cure Johnny. Trying
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