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As a young girl, Peters Township native Nicole Spindler began learning about the therapeutic value of writing after her grandfather died. “I didn’t understand death very well, but I knew my grandmother was very lonely,” she recalled. “So I ended up writing letters to her, and she was just overjoyed. Ever since 2003, we’ve been writing letters – handwritten, cursive – every single week.” Putting a pen to paper took on further significance when her father was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called olfactory neuroblastoma, a tumor that grows in the nasal cavity. Jeff Spindler is doing fine today, and according to his daughter, medical experts believe he is one of the longest survivors of that particular disease. But learning of his illness in 2012 had a profound effect on then-teenager Nicole.

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