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<P align="center"><b><font size="6" face="Arial">Heidi Julia Bender</font></b><CENTER><BR>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em"><font size="3"><b>Heidi
Julia Bender</b><span> </span>(November 16, 1979 - March 31, 1991), the
younger daughter of Randi Laine Bender (nee Anderson) and Howard Jeffrey
Bender, was born in<span> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub_Oak,_New_York" title="Shrub
Oak, New York" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shrub
Oak, New York</a><span> </span>but lived most of her life in<span> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Park,_Maryland" title="University Park, Maryland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University
Park, Maryland</a>. Heidi led an average American middle-class life until she
was stricken with an inoperable<span> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_tumor" title="Brain tumor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">tumor</a><span> </span>in
her brain stem when she was eight years old.</font></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 150%"><font size="3"><img border="0" src="Heidi-1.jpg" width="205" height="281" align="left"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"><font face="Arial">The
tumor progressively took away Heidi's functionality, beginning with her
right arm movements, and she was not able to continue her Fruits and
Vegetables comic strip. <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">She
wrote a newspaper story for the Prince George's Journal (publication ceased
in 2005) describing her four surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, and other
medical treatments and how she maintained a positive attitude throughout it
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This story stimulated both
media and individual interest in how this little girl could handle such a
terrible illness so well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></span></font></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 150%"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none">Heidi
became a local celebrity as she continued to surprise her parents, teachers,
and doctors with her positive attitude and ways to get around problems her
illness caused. She was awarded an Official Citation for Courage and
Fortitude by the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Maryland">Montgomery
County</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> government;
the Prince George's Journal ran follow-up editorials using Heidi's attitude
as an example; the </span><a href="http://www.goodknight.org/">Good
Knight Child Empowerment Network</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> made
her their first Junior Blue Knight; the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make-A-Wish_Foundation">Make-A-Wish
Foundation</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> published
her book </span><a href="http://www.anylanguage.net/Heidi/Cathy.pdf">Cathy,
Please Don't Move</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> </span><sup class="reference" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial"><a href="#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> and
made her their honorary editor for their fall/winter 1990 Wishline; her
favorite cartoonists, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Groening">Matt
Groening<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons">The
Simpsons</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none">)
and </span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davis"><font size="3">Jim
Davis</font><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"></span></font></a><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield">Garfield</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none">)
sent her personalized cartoons of encouragement; First Lady </span>Barbara
Bush<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> sent
her a personal letter of encouragement; she has two works of art in the </span><a href="http://www.visitoslo.com/en/international-museum-of-childrens-art-det-internasjonale-barnekunstmuseet.49105.182668r256.tlp.html">International
Museum of Children's Art</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo">Oslo</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none">;
the </span><a href="http://www.ashmillfarm.com/">Ash Mill Farm</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> in
Pennsylvania told her that she was such an inspiration to them that a lamb
would always be named for her; and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUSA_(TV)">WUSA
TV<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> did
a news special</span><sup class="reference" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> on
how Heidi handled her day. The show concluded with her message from her
wheelchair, "I want people to know that they can do whatever they want,
no matter what their situation is. They can do it - they shouldn't give
up."</span></font></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 150%"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none">In
1997 the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Astronomical_Union">International Astronomical Union</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> (IAU),
upon recommendation by the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Geological_Survey">U.S. Geological Survey</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> (USGS),
named a </span><a href="http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/688">crater on Venus</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none"> after
Heidi. They said, "Heidi is the only child for whom a crater on Venus
has been named. While she doesn't have the quantity of substantial works of
other authors and artists, the USGS and the IAU recognized that a child who
accomplishes so much in such a short time under such duress, and has had
such a positive effect on so many people, is famous indeed."</span><a href="#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;"><sup style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></sup></a></font></p>
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<p align="left"><b><a href="#cite_ref-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">^</a></b><span> </span>Lucky
Books, Winchester, VA</li>
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<p align="left"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">^</a></b><span> </span>Washington,
DC; November 20, 1990</li>
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<p align="left"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">^</a></b><span> </span>Letter
from the IAU to Howard Jeffrey Bender</li>
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