Magic Keeps Boy Alive

This is nice:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20071223_Magic_boy.html

Here's the lede:

For nearly all his 19 years, Chad Juros has lived in the shadow of cancer and the light of magic. They have been the yin and yang of his existence.

As a young boy, he was diagnosed with leukemia and survived, getting through the chemotherapy, and the relapse, and the terrifying ill effects of brain radiation, through magic.