Elena Desserich was like any other girl her age. She loved to draw (pink was her favorite color) and she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up. But unfortunately everything changed suddenly: the cancer doctors detected in her brain was incurable and they gave her only about three months to live. To make sure that she enjoyed her limited time, her parents never told her about the diagnosis.

Not long after, Elena was so sick she had trouble swallowing and talking. To communicate with her parents, she began to write notes. But what they didn’t know was that Elena was hiding some of those notes around the house — obviously she knew more than they thought. Read the full story here ▶