As Brian entered Room No. 32, Peggy's face lit up with a bright smile. Peggy was Brain's 1, and was dying of cancer. She had a collection of paper dolls that she had made. All 62 were on the wall behind her bed. Brian had asked her about the dolls, but she would always just smile, and say 2 that they were her friends.
Day by day, Peggy's body grew 3, but her spirit remained strong. Each one of her smiles pierced Brian's heart. It was two weeks after Peggy's ninth birthday that she died. 4 expected, it broke Brian's heart.
As Brian forced 5 to walk into Room No. 32 to collect Peggy's things, he saw the paper dolls smiling at him from the wall. Unable to 6 the dolls, Brian found a shoebox to put them in. One by one he removed them from the wall. For the 7 time, he found some names on the back of each: Terrah, Ivy, Nicole and so on. He felt puzzled. There was one 8 name that caught his attention: Jessie. Jessie had been Peggy's first and best friend in the 9, who had died about one year ago. Then Brian began to realize the paper dolls were all the children that had 10 since she had arrived at the hospital. When he finally pulled the 62nd doll off the wall, he found one that he had 11 seen before. It was purple, Peggy's favourite colour. As Brian turned the doll over and read the back, tears filled his eyes.
All the time he had been pretending that it was 12 serious. Peggy had already known that she was going to die, but she always kept smiling at the world.13 a big brother, he had known so little about his sister, the 14 girl on earth. Peggy, only a child, had accepted her disease and death as a part of her life. She faced most people's worst fear with 15.
From that day on, Brian learned not to think of life's downsides, but to seek out the best in any situation.
