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Today, I came across the story of Garvan Byrne, a child born in England in 1973, with a disease that ultimately took his life at age 12.

What is remarkable about Garvan was the maturity of faith, outlook, poise, and nearly everything else he displayed.

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He did a television interview shortly before his death, and you see the form of a small boy, younger than his years, but the eloquence, faith, poise and maturity that pours from his heart is that of an 80 year old. Below are 4 videos of that interview.

The first is an 8 minute edited version if you really don’t have the time. But I urge you to take the 22 minutes to see all three parts of the full interview.

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Garvan became Assistant Professor of history at Bard College in and taught there until From , Garvan was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow.

Interview with Garvan Byrne, a 12 year old boy with a rare bone marrow disease, who died in He talks about his life, death, pain, religion and life.

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It has interviews with his parents and shows something of life and medicine of 30 years ago.

One of the things that drew me to him was his love of learning, his ability to communicate, and the matter of fact wisdom of his faith.

I found myself comparing him to my students and in awe of where he was at half their age. What