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PHOTOS: Butterflies Serve as a Symbol of Hope in Hingham
A look at the images from the Wings of Hope event at the Derby Street Shoppes on Thursday.
The Wings of Hope event was held at Derby Street Shoppes on Thursday to bring peace to cancer patients.
Tim Cummings, a licenses social worker and the Program Director of the Cancer Support Group organized the event with the Derby Street Shoppes to give emotional support to patients and their families.
“Cancer is like a train, it runs on two tracks, the medical track an the emotional one,” he said. “We try to provide that emotional support that people need when they get diagnosed and they go through cancer.”
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Cummings said the butterflies are a symbol of hope.
“ A butterfly comes from a caterpillar, so there is a difficult stage it goes through,” he said. “There is a lot of hope of making it through a difficult experience and then coming out on the other side and cancer qualifies as one of those events.”
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