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To see Roshon dart around his living room in Tarrytown with seemingly not a care in the world, it’s hard to imagine this seven-year-old bundle of energy was near death when he was rushed to the hospital with a stubborn bloody nose and was diagnosed with leukemia.

“He was a very ill boy. They had never seen a kid with a white blood count that high,” said Roshon’s great-grandmother and guardian Phyllis Stewart. “We weren’t sure he was going to live.”

His condition was so grave that the Maria Ferrara Children’s Center referred Roshon to the Hudson Valley Chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Tarrytown, which has granted more than 1,700 wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions.  more »