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The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

~Mattie Stepanek

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I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'

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God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

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Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.

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My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

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You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

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Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

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I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

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We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: July 17th, 1990

Died: June 22nd, 2004

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