title: A Case for Adventures
author: Katie Kerr
description: ConKerr Cancer: A Case for Smiles was started when Ryan Kerr was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer at the age of twelve.<br> <br> Despite his illness - and many, many trips to the hospital - Ryan lived a full life of school, sports and friends. To make his hospital room cheerier, his mom Cindy began making fun, whimsical pillowcases to brighten up his day and put a smile on his face. Ryan liked them so much that Cindy started making pillowcases for the other children in the Oncology Unit. In a short time, the pillowcase project grew in amazing ways and has provided more than 210,000 pillowcases to sick children.<br> <br> Thousands of volunteers from across the United States, Canada and South Africa have joined in so that ConKerr now has more than 100 chapters serving over 190 hospitals, and is seeking to expand even more.
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  **Kat Martin - Hot Rain**
  
   **Chapter One**
  
  “Are you sure about this, Chrissy?” Mary Alice Parker glanced worriedly from
  her friend to the gleaming white yacht bobbing at the end of the wooden dock.
  “You've always hated boats. Forgodsake, you get seasick on the way to the
  mall!”
  
  Chrissy just grinned. “I don't hate boats — especially not boats like that
  one.” Flipping her long dark brown hair back out of her face, she tipped her
  head toward the sleek, fifty-three-foot Bertram that her latest boyfriend,
  Donnie Markham, planned to take her out on for the day. “Getting seasick is
  the part I hate and today I'm wearing ‘the patch.’ If I weren't, I'd be in
  trouble the minute we got out of the bay.”
  
  With her dark eyes and full-busted figure, Christine Chambers was the exact
  opposite of Allie, who had wavy short blond hair, blue eyes, and a slender,
  almost boyish physique. But the pair had met at San Diego State, and though
  Allie had dropped out at the end of her