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Acute Myeloid Leukemia Nearly Killed Me — But It Didn’t Stop Me From Dancing My Heart Out

As told to Nicole Audrey SpectorWhen I discovered dance at the age of 10, I fell immediately in love with it and knew that I wanted to be a professional dancer. My family supported my ambitions and it was an incredibly proud moment when I landed my first job — as a backup dancer for Beyoncé at the Billboard Music Awards. I was just 17. A year previously I’d been told that I’d eventually have leukemia. I’d been told in a letter from the American Red Cross. It arrived in the mail shortly after I’d donated blood for the first time. The letter detailed a troubling finding in my blood cell count (I...