Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) I tētahi pō, i runga i te Facebook, ka tukuna e tētahi kōtiro e mate ana i te cystic fibrosis he karere ki tētahi tamaiti e mate ana i te cystic fibrosis, ā, ka huri tonu te oranga o rātau tokorua. I pānui te kotiro, a Katie Donovan, he tino mate te tamaiti, a Dalton Prager. "Ki te hiahia koe ki tētahi hoa hei kōrero, ka taea e koe te whakapā mai ki a au", ko tana tuhituhi. "E mihi ana, engari e mohio ana ahau ki a koe?" ka whakahoki ia. Kāore, kāore, i tuhituhi a Katie ki a ia, ā, i kōrero ki a Dalton mō a ia anō. Ka rite ki a ia, 18 ōna tau, ā, "He tino kino taku manawa, ā, e kite ana au kei te hōhipera koe. E pouri ana ahau. E mohio ana ahau he mea kino!...Engari me kaha tonu koe". I rere nga karere i waenganui i a raua tokorua. I mōhio rātau kei te aroha rātau. Mo te nuinga o ētahi atu tokorua, ko te mahi e whai ake nei, ko te tūtaki i a rātau anō. Engari mō Katie rāua ko Dalton, he uaua, he mōrearea hoki. Kaua ngā tūroro cystic fibrosis e noho tata ki a rātou anō nā te mea ka taea e rātau te whakakotahi i ngā mate ka whara i ō rātau uma ngoikore tonu. Ko Tākuta Michael Anstead o te Whare Wānanga o Kentucky, te tohunga mate pukupuku o Katie mai i a ia e tamariki ana, i whakaako ia ia i nga wa maha he whakaaro kino nga hui kanohi-ki-te-kanohi me etahi atu turoro CF. I a rātau kōrerorero aipurangi, ko tētahi o ngā mea tuatahi i kōrerotia e Dalton ki a Katie mō a ia ko te mea kei a ia te Burkholderia cepacia, he mate tino mōrearea mō te hunga e mate ana i te CF. "I penei ahau, 'Kaore, ko Dalton ahau no Missouri, a he Burkholderia cepacia taku,' na te mea he mea nui i roto i te hapori CF", ka mahara ia. "I waiho e au te whakatau mēnā me tutaki tātou ki a ia". I whakarongo a Katie ki tōna ngākau, ahakoa tērā pea ka whara i ōna kōhauhau. I tono ia kia haere mai a Dalton ki te toro atu ki a ia i Flemingsburg, i Kentucky. "I mea ahau ki a Dalton ka pai ake ahau ki te koa - ki te tino, tino koa - mo nga tau e rima o toku ora ka mate wawe atu i te ahuareka noa iho ka ora mo nga tau e rua tekau", e kii ana a Katie. "He tino mea tērā i whakaaro ai ahau, engari ina whai koe i aua whakaaro, ka mōhio koe". Nō reira, i te 28 o Akuhata, 2009, neke atu i te ono haora te wā i eke ai a Dalton i St. Charles, Missouri, ki te kāinga o Katie i Flemingsburg, Kentucky, i reira...
I tūtaki a Katie rāua ko Dalton i a rāua e mahi ana ki te cystic fibrosis. E rua tau i muri mai, ka marenatia raua. I whiwhi a Dalton i tētahi whakatipuranga pūoro, engari kei te tatari tonu a Katie.