"Not long after, he met Sahil Mehta, a South Bay teen who had also lost his brother to the same brain cancer. Their parents began talking about launching a foundation, and the boy's paths kept crossing - at each other's homes, on ski trips, at fundraising events. Over time, their friendship deepened, rooted in the kind of loss few others their age could understand."
""My life was difficult after the diagnosis," the 13-year-old said softly at his home earlier this month. "My parents were focusing all their attention on my brother, so I felt like I wasn't heard or seen, and I didn't get much attention. Not long after, he met Sahil Mehta, a South Bay teen who had also lost his brother to the same brain cancer."
A 13-year-old felt overlooked after his younger brother received a DIPG diagnosis, while the family coped with treatments and changing daily life. He later connected with Sahil Mehta, another teen who had lost a brother to the same brain cancer, and their families began planning a foundation. The friends started with a lemonade stand and toy drives, then successfully lobbied for AB 703 to add a tax form checkbox allowing Californians to donate directly to childhood cancer research. The bill passed the legislature, reflecting youth-led fundraising, advocacy, and community support after familial loss.
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