John Hecker was born July 24, 1983. He was an intelligent, funny and caring person. He was attending college when he was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease. It was April 2003. He went through treatments, medications and anything else the doctors could do for him. It wasn't enough. Unfortunately, John was in the final stages of the cancer when he was diagnosed. He passed away October 2003 at the age of 20.
This was his favorite poem by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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