Self-styled "bear whisperer," Timothy Treadwell, spent 13 summers in the Alaskan wilderness living among grizzly bears until one fateful day ended it all.
She lost her daughter to liver cancer and her husband to a heart attack, but Anna Ling Pierce turned tragedy into a celebration of life by raising money for pediatric cancer research.
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