In October 1994, Billy Best, a 16-year-old adolescent from Boston, made national television skateboarding in Texas. Billy had been diagnosed with Hodg-kin's disease earlier that year. After five sessions of chemotherapy, he had lost 20 pounds and his hair. Billy had observed his aunt die after chemotherapy made her sick, and he too felt the chemotherapy was killing him. He decided to run away after he was told that most of the cancer was gone, but that he would need to continue chemotherapy and receive radiation therapy over the next four months.
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