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John Green

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After graduation, John Green spent a few months filling in as a student chaplain at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio while enlisted at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He was planning on becoming an Episcopal priest, however, his experiences of working in a hospital with children fighting life-threatening illnesses made him want to be an author and write The Fault in Our Stars. While working as a chaplain in the hospital, he developed a friendship with a teenage cancer patient named Esther Grace Earl. As a cancer patient, people believe that they can’t live productive and fulfilling lives even while experiencing treatment. For us to have this thought process as an advanced generation reveals how ignorant we can truly …show more content…

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