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"By now, you&amp;#x27;ve probably heard about Zach Sobiech, the wise-beyond-his-years Minnesota teen who wrote the viral song Clouds last year after doctors told him he was dying of cancer. Since the news broke that Sobiech died yesterday morning, the YouTube video of Clouds has topped 3.5 million views. A documentary and a special celebrity music video on Zach made by Rainn Wilson&amp;amp;#8212;and featuring the likes of Bryan Cranston, Ashley Tisdale, Rachel Bilson, and Sarah Silverman&amp;amp;#8212;have also made the rounds on the Web. &amp;quot;I want everyone to know,&amp;quot; Sobiech says in the film, &amp;quot;you don&amp;#x27;t have to find out you&amp;#x27;re dying to start living.&amp;quot; We thought we&amp;#x27;d take this moment to acknowledge another person who is central to this sad and touching story, and that&amp;#x27;s Sobiech&amp;#x27;s girlfriend, Amy Adamle. A 17-year-old high school student in Minnesota, Amy started dating Zach after his diagnosis, and he credited her with helping him cope with his illness. Zach&amp;#x27;s cancer obviously played a prominent role in his relationship with Amy. One time, for example, a planned picnic date was spoiled when a supposedly routine medical appointment revealed that Zach&amp;#x27;s condition had deteriorated and that he needed surgery. (Amy later made up for it by surprising Zach with a picnic lunch on the 50-yard line of the Metrodome.) Yet the couple stayed together. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll love her to death,&amp;quot; Zach says in the documentary. Zach&amp;#x27;s story is truly inspiring, but so is Amy&amp;#x27;s. Quoting the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson on her Twitter bio, Amy says: &amp;quot;&amp;#x27;Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.&amp;quot; What&amp;#x27;s your reaction to Zach and Amy&amp;#x27;s story?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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