Bopsy Research Paper

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The Story you are about to read first appeared in a copy of "chicken soup for the soul" back in 2001. There are many variations of this tear jerking story but it all revolves around the same concept and that is that a small child got to fulfill his dreams. The only thing more inspiring than watching someone become something great is becoming something great. You can see "the REAL story of bopsy" at http://pheonix.gov/fire/bopsystory2002.pdf.
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it was 1978 and 5 year old Frank "bopsy” Salazar was terminaly ill with leukemia his mother checked him into the hospital. Over the next two years “bopsy” would be treated for his illness. His mother ended up speaking to another woman by the name of “pauling” she had lost her son to leukemia the year
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He got to help crews set ladders and climb them, he got the opportunity to watch the brave men risk their lives. Bopsy even got to talk on the radio! The whole nine! Some say that the joy from being an honorary frie fighter made Bopsy live three months longer than any doctor thought was possible.
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however one night in 1981 his signs began to drop drastically, The head nurse of the hopsital started to call family members and his mother. Bopsy's mother had remembered the day her son spent as a fire fighter and called firefighter bob, and asked if he could send a uniformed fireman to the hospital to be with Bopsy as he made his transition. he told her that he and
Bopsy’s team would be there in 5 minutes and to announce that when they hear the sirens that there is not a fire, its just the fire department seeing one of its finest members one more time.
Moments later there was a knock on Bopsy’s window, it was firefighter bob. Fireman Bob climbed into the room. Then, one by one, four other firefighters climbed up to Bopsy's third-floor window. he said "You know, Mom," "I'd really like to go down to see them, to be out there