Bye Mattie
A friend introduced me to Mattie Stepanek's works when we went to Barnes and Noble the other day. I didn't know who he was then and was not really interested. However, my friend explained that Mattie has been considered one of the best-selling poets in recent years, only, he was 13 and a muscular dystrophy sufferer. That got my attention. Muscular dystrophy is one rare and very crippling disease. Para syang ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) version para sa mga bata. It's just not right for children to undergo the symptoms of muscular dystrophy. Just breaks your heart. What Mattie had was dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, a genetic disease that impaired almost all his body systems. I think his mother has the adult version of it and three older siblings died of it in early childhood. Anyway I read in an article by CNN that Mattie died last June 22. Well, goodbye Mattie. Thank you for the inspiration.
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yeah, i heard about Mattie Stepanek's death din. parang ang dami niyang na-accomplish in his short time in this world.
onga eh. well i'm glad he's in a better place. :)
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