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April Capil

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Diagnosed with Stage 3 triple negative breast cancer just shy of her 35th birthday, doctors told April Capil she had a 1 in 3 chance of making it to 40 without a recurrence. Intent on making the next 5 years count, Capil embarked on a "40-by-40" bucket list, which included running the NYC Marathon, skydiving in Colorado, kayaking the Main Salmon River, rock-climbing in Moab, attending an Oprah Winfrey show, going on a chocolate tour of Paris, swimming with dolphins, learning how to figure skate, and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, among other things. Capil not only checked off everything on her list; she is still cancer-free fifteen years later, and, having completed her “50-by-50,” has started a “60-by-60.”

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