Episode Synopsis ""We put the dolls up on a shelf.""

Everything changed when the cancer diagnosis came for Jessica Turri at 9 years old. But her story isn’t what you think. Not even close. Relive her improbable life – from treatment at St. Jude to the set of a popular TV show, from Nashville TV news to country music – with members of her awestruck family. “I just know I’ve been offered so many chances and I’ve been given another chance at life and I really feel a lot of pressure to make that life count.”

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• "We put the dolls up on a shelf."
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• "Cancer had become my life."
• "We all wore pink to her funeral."
• "It was a very big honor for me to be the one."
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