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After Christmas death, teen leaves online message behind
Have you cried yet today? No? Here, we can fix that.
Ben Breedlove, an 18-year-old high school senior in Austin, Texas, died on Christmas Day of a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, something he’d had all of his life. But he left behind two wordless videos on his YouTube channel, in which he used a series of note cards with handwritten messages to tell his life story, including the three times he “cheated death.” His family discovered the videos in the hours after his death, reports NBC’s Austin, Texas, affiliate station, KXAN.
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http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/28/9773999-after-christmas-death-teen-leaves-online-message-behind
12/31/11 Update:
Texas Teen Ben Breedlove: More than 1,500 Attend Memorial Service
This is my story – Part 1
This is my story – Part 2
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