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Community rallies around NB youth Makilia Moore

While most families are waking up on Christmas morning wondering what Santa left under the tree, one New Boston family is asking Santa for a cure to childhood cancer this year.
Community rallies around NB youth Makilia Moore

While most families are waking up on Christmas morning wondering what Santa left under the tree, one New Boston family is asking Santa for a cure to childhood cancer this year.

On December 6, Kristy Evans received the news no parent ever wants to hear. Her daughter, 14-year-old Makilia Moore, was diagnosed with leukemia.

What makes it the hardest for her family, Evans said, is that she is a 35-year-old single mother to five children ranging in age from 4- to 15-years-old and this is the first Christmas she is spending away from them.

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