A Massachusetts community is rallying around an 8-year-old boy who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in late September
AJ Congdon was diagnosed with with an aggressive form of childhood cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma late last monthAnna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, Eater and other publications.
Her Goal Was to Graduate Middle School Before Cancer Took Her. Now Her Memory Helps Other 8th Graders “It was very uplifting,” AJ’s mom, Jamie Congdon, told WHDH-TV. “It was something we all needed, he needed.”
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