Hollyn Peterson said she received her first cancer diagnosis at five years old.
WHITEWATER, Wis. – A college student graduating this year in Wisconsin has beaten cancer three times.. Her story of resilience began long before her college career.Peterson is graduating and giving a speech at her university’s commencement in front of hundreds of fellow classmates, friends and professors, hoping to inspire them through her own life experiences.“I’ve had a lot of people ask me like, Hollyn … how do you not give up because you have the worst luck,” she said.
“‘You’re going to go to college and you’re going to go to art school and you’re going to become an art teacher,’ and I was like, ‘No, I’m not’,” Peterson said. “It gives me catharsis when I’m painting,” she said. “I think as a freshman here, I was very much like I wanted it to be pretty, I want it to look nice, and as the years went on it was more about the emotion that I was getting.”
“I’m incredibly proud of her, and she was an exceptional student both academically and also as a human being,” Porcero said. “She’s a very genuine, kinda grounded, humble young woman, and I can attribute that to just the struggles that she had at an early age. Her resiliency is amazing.”
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