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<div>When she passed away on June 12, 2025, at the age of 46 following years of treatment for cancer, <strong>Evelyn De la Cruz Velez left behind her husband Miguel Nolasco and their five children: Miguel Jr., Laetitia, Annie, Connie, and Zoey Nolasco.</strong> Less than two weeks before her death, Evelyn had orchestrated Zoey's 9th birthday party from her hospital room; to honor her mother's wishes, Laetitia celebrated her high school graduation open house just days after losing Evelyn.

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<div>Because Evelyn did not have health insurance at the time of her initial cancer diagnosis, this was considered a "pre-existing condition" and she was not able to get any insurance coverage for her years of treatment and hospitalizations. <strong>This has left the Nolasco family with truly overwhelming medical debt in addition to funeral costs</strong> — all of this on top of the grief that each member of the family is navigating.

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<div>Miguel is an incredibly hard worker and doing everything he can for his children. He also knows that he can't do it alone — he has been courageous and humble enough to ask for help.

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<div><strong>This family needs our support!</strong> Anything helps and will be very much appreciated.

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<div>Cuando falleció el 12 de junio de 2025 a la edad de 46 años después de años de tratamiento contra el cáncer, <strong>Evelyn De la Cruz Vélez dejó atrás a su esposo Miguel Nolasco y sus cinco hijos: Miguel Jr., Laetitia, Annie, Connie y Zoey Nolasco.</strong> Menos de dos semanas antes de su muerte, Evelyn había orquestado la fiesta de cumpleaños número 9 de Zoey desde su habitación del hospital; para honrar los deseos de su madre, Laetitia celebró su casa abierta de graduación de la escuela secundaria pocos días después de perder a Evelyn.

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<div>Debido a que Evelyn no tenía seguro médico en el momento de su diagnóstico inicial de cáncer, esto se consideró una "condición preexistente" y no pudo obtener ninguna cobertura de seguro para sus años de tratamiento y hospitalizaciones. <strong>Esto ha dejado a la familia Nolasco con una deuda médica verdaderamente abrumadora, además de los costos del funeral</strong>, todo esto además del dolor que cada miembro de la familia está navegando.

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<div>Miguel es un trabajador increíblemente duro y hace todo lo posible por sus hijos. También sabe que no puede hacerlo solo, ha sido lo suficientemente valiente y humilde como para pedir ayuda.

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<div><strong>¡Esta familia necesita nuestro apoyo!</strong> Cualquier cosa ayuda y será muy apreciada.

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Life After Evelyn: support the Nolasco family

<div>My name is Jeffrey Neering, and I started this fundraiser to make my dream of becoming a hospital chaplain a reality.
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<div>I was recently accepted into a year-long clinical chaplaincy internship at the University of California San Francisco’s Medical Center at Mission Bay. This internship would allow me to complete 4 Units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), which are required to become a fully board-certified chaplain. I currently work at Naropa University as a graduate admissions counselor, and given the high cost of living in Boulder, my income only covers my basic expenses, and not an expensive relocation.
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<div>I’m asking for your generous help in making the move from Boulder CO to San Francisco to serve others. I’m placing myself in the cradle of community to make this a reality.
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<div>I’m a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and consider myself to be an interfaith spiritual caregiver. I want to provide end-of-life spiritual care because the imminence of death can be the most anxiety provoking, and yet spiritual, time of someone’s life. If I can help reduce the suffering of others in crisis, I will consider my life well-lived.
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<div>My call to serve others began as a commitment to do no harm and became a deeply seeded desire to alleviate the suffering of others. I have done harm. In 2011, I seriously injured someone with a piece of glass during an altercation in Boulder and was convicted of 2nd Degree Attempted Murder and 1st Degree Assault. I was ultimately sentenced to 12 years in prison and served 6.5 years. I owe a debt of gratitude to the community of supporters that protested at my sentencing and filled the gallery, and to everyone that sent letters conveying their positive regard for me. I am also grateful to Dr. Phil Stanley, a professor at Naropa University, who testified at my trial as a character witness.
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<div>Before committing my crime, I was a student at Naropa University in 2010 and 2011, studying Buddhism at the graduate level, but didn’t practice. I was spinning my wheels on the intellectual considerations of Buddhist philosophy. In prison, out of a sense of desperation and a necessity, I began practicing. I took refuge, found a Buddhist community (sangha), finished three graduate courses in Buddhism through Naropa, and practiced in earnest. 
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<div>My motivation in studying Buddhism changed; I wanted to be a force for good in people’s lives. I was supported by professors at Naropa, and Khenpo Thupten Daji, in my practice. Daji became a volunteer at the prison where I was housed, and I took refuge with him; professors came to visit me, and I spoke to my advisor at the university weekly. After release, I returned to Naropa, this time for a Master of Divinity (MDiv). I thought being a chaplain was a way to help others that felt authentic to me. In 2023, I graduated with an MDiv from Naropa University. I owe a debt of gratitude to all those who have helped me get to this point.
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<div>I am asking for a rather large sum, or at least for me it is, and your help is sorely needed. I have listed the expenses I anticipate to travel to, and settle in, San Francisco, pay rent for two months, and other incidental costs. I am asking for two months of rent because the internship starts August 26, and I will not have been paid enough to cover September during the first few days of the internship.
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<div>Rent - August and September	   $4,400
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<div>It is my hope to continue work as a chaplain and spiritual caregiver after finishing the year-long residency at UCSF, so your contribution funds the year, but also makes a future beyond the internship possible. Thank you for your consideration. Anything helps!
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<div>If you may be so inclined, please share this request with others.  This can really help.  Thank you so much for your contribution.
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<p>Now, this is a story all about how Alan’s life got flipped-turned upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, listen to the Rollins, I’ll tell you how he’ll become the prince of a town called Fort Collins. 
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<p>Now that the cheesy beginning has your attention I’ll cut to the chase. I’m Aaron,  Alan Feuerstein’s brother and with his <br />permission have started this campaign.<br />My brother recently was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma,  a rare but becoming more common cancer of the plasma in <br />the bones. I myself have seen another<br />person be diagnosed and know the <br />destruction it can do on the body. The current 5 year survival rate is 54% .
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<p>Thankfully the doctors caught it in the <br />early stages and Alan is beginning chemo<br />treatments today, a 6-7 hour process.  <br />Alan is 37 years young.  Read on to learn our goals and how you’re donation will help him become that prince of Fort Collins.
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<p>I don’t think my brother wants to retire, my goal would be for him to do such. I <br />want him to get out and enjoy as much of the country/ world as his and his loving <br />wife Sharryns’ hearts desire without the worry of being strapped by work and <br />finances. Alan is likely more modest than I am, we will get him added here<br />so he can provide his own words and <br />desires.  I’d like to help them pay off the house.  Alan desires a new car(earth friendly),  would like to go to the Star Wars <br />theme park(nerd), and visit family. (MI, CA, etc).
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<p>Well I’m sitting here thinking I’ve put to much, yet there’s much more to tell you<br />about my brother. Stay tuned for more from myself and others as Alan Adventures to F*** cancer 
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