Keeping AJ’s Dreams Aloft
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n 2006, while receiving chemotherapy at Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, AJ Donohue, a young patient from the Golden Isles, decided to started a fundraising campaign. Because AJ was spending a great deal of time in the hospital rooms there and he had become close to the doctors and nursing staff, he wanted to find a way to give back to the place that was his second home and the people who were like family to him. Despite having been told he only had a few weeks to live, AJ started selling stickers that depicted him flying a plane (one of his favorite hobbies), and set a goal to raise $50,000 and to have stickers in every state in
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ELEGANT ISLAND LIVING
