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Hello, Branchburg, and welcome to our presentation of the 2025 Ladies' Night Out, Pearls and Prosecoes

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the theme this year. This year's Ladies' Event is sponsored by the Megan Rose Bradley Foundation,

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which was established in December of 2004 in honor of the memory of Megan Bradley, who

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passed away on November 7th of 2004 due to pediatric brain cancer. In preserving her memory, the

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Megan Rose Bradley Foundation aims to raise public awareness and sponsor research for the

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cure for pediatric brain cancer. As you watch this video, please consider how you may volunteer

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to help this worthy cause in support of other families who face the same challenges as

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Megan and her family. Hi, I'm Eileen Bradley, and this is my husband, Bob. Hello. We're here

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from the Megan Rose Bradley Foundation. We're here tonight at our second biggest fundraiser

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of the year, Ladies' Night Out, at the Elks in Bridgewater. The Megan Rose Bradley Foundation

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is named after my daughter Megan, who at 16 on October 1st was diagnosed with a massive

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brain tumor that we did not know she had, but she was living her life that she always did,

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and we lost her 38 days later, November 7th, 2004. We were reeling from the diagnosis

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when we were figuring out what we were going to do, and when this all happened we decided

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that we did not want Megan's passing to go in vain. We wanted to make a difference for

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young people because pediatric brain cancer is much more prevalent than people realize.

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It ranges between the number one and your number two, cancer cause of death for children.

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It competes with leukemia and the blood cancers, but whether it's number one or

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number two, it's not acceptable, and there's very little research that is dedicated to it

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because it's so low on the totem pole, but the children are our future, and we need to make

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a difference. So far we've raised $673,000 for pediatric brain cancer research to

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prestige organizations such as New York Presbyterians and Columbia University, Pennsylvania State

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University College of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, and we're

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working very hard to make a difference. We also try to educate the public about

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pediatric brain cancer, and we provide scholarships to high school seniors who

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emulate Megan's characteristics which had to do with leadership, compassion,

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kindness, and just being a good person and good grace. We also give out

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humanitarian service awards to eighth grade graduating students for doing things

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based on acts of kindness. Being kind to each other means much more to us than

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being the best student academically in a class because what matters is humanity,

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and if there was anything anybody needs to know about Megan, she was a very

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caring, loving individual, whether it was somebody who was her best friend,

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whether it was her teacher, whether it was somebody walking down the street

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or her family. So we work very hard at trying to make a difference. We could not

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save Megan, but we are working very hard to save

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everyone else's children because there is no room in our world

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for children to be stricken down with a brain tumor,

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or to be so compromised because the current treatments are so difficult

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for them to undergo, and then the residual effects they have later on.

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So I hope you'll join us in our fight against pediatric brain cancer,

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and you too can make a difference for a child to have a brighter future

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tomorrow. Thank you.

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you