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<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hi All,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I've chosen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to complete L’Etape du Tour (Tour de France Stage 9) this year </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and would like to donate sponsorship to MacMillan Cancer Support in memory of a friend called <strong>Jon Hare</strong> who tragically passed away last November due to the rarest form of cancer in the world – Pecoma. MacMillan Cancer Support provided a great deal of support to Jon, his girlfriend Alex and his family and I know he would want your donations to help make life easier for future cancer patients.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For those of you who don’t know Jon, he was an amazing and truly memorable character for all the right reasons – bursting with energy, enthusiasm, a belief he could achieve anything and a love for life that was unbelievably infectious. In 2007 he left the corporate world of BT to follow his dream and set up his own business ‘Green Van Hire’ and it was thriving. He was a born entrepreneur and would have definitely made his million one day. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sadly he was diagnosed with cancer in July 2009 and 2 weeks later was paralysed during an operation to remove a tumour. I have no idea how he managed to cope with both cancer and being in a wheelchair for his remaining days. Jon’s courage, positivity, sense of humour and strong fighting spirit was there until the end -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a real inspiration. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He had the rarest form of cancer in the world and fondly renamed himself ‘The Rarest Hare’ – all his qualities together are what really made him rare – one in a million. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tragically Jon isnt the only person I know who has lost their battle with cancer, only yesterday I attended the funeral of another great young man called Dave Bernau, who sadly passed away due to secondary liver cancer at the age of 32. This is also in memory of Dave - an absolute gentleman. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I know most of you reading this will have your own experience with cancer and wish you could do more to help those affected, so please donate what you can and thank you for taking the time to help. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Take care</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sara xxx</span></p>