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Sammie Gehl, a junior nursing student at St. John Fisher College (SJFC) in Pittsford, N.Y., practices sprints after getting out of classes. Sammie lost her leg to Osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, in middle school. Sammie told her doctors to "just cut off my freakin' leg because I want to run" when they attempted to save her leg with a surgery that ultimately failed.

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Sammie Gehl, a junior nursing student at St. John Fisher College (SJFC) in Pittsford, N.Y., practices sprints after getting out of classes. Sammie lost her leg to Osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, in middle school. Sammie told her doctors to "just cut off my freakin' leg because I want to run" when they attempted to save her leg with a surgery that ultimately failed.