Foley, Ala. — (OBA) — In the quiet after the diagnosis, after the doctors stepped out, after the words stopped echoing, after the reality settled in, 11-year-old Mary Grace Glover made a promise that now shapes everything she does:
“I’m going to help find a cure.”
Just two weeks earlier, on February 12, her 4-year-old brother, Gardner Love Kesterson, had been diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. In an instant, childhood gave way to hospital corridors, IV poles, medical alarms, and long drives back and forth across state lines. For their single-parent home in Foley, the news did not arrive gently. It hit like a storm that changed the landscape overnight…