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APDA 2025 Rhode Island Optimism Walk & 5K Fun Run ○ None

Jessica Mello

September 27, 2025 9:00am - 1:00pm

This team is in honor of my dad, Team Johnny. My dad has been living with Parkinsons Disease for over 16 years. Through all the difficulty and hardship, I have always seen one person as my superhero, my DAD. He worked hard for his family. He gave himself, his energy and his strength to support our family, alongside his equally passionate and powerful wife. As he grew older, his steps slower, his stature bent, and his fight began. It was difficult to hear the diagnosis, about a man who always appeared so strong, so capable, so astonishly vibrant. He's lost a lot of who he was, but he has become so much more- a loving husband, genuine father, committed and caring vavo. Recently he was diagnosed with bone METS and a new tumor, he has faced this new dx with such courage and strength. He has shown me how to be strong when life is heaviest. He has taught me to be caring, and brave. He has taught me to smile as the only way to fight out of the dark.

So, I THIS IS FOR MY DAD, TEAM JOHNNY.

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