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From May to mid-August, 17-year-old Beau Taylor was "slammed" with an intense cancer treatment schedule. Now she plans on making the very best of her senior year at Darien High School. Oct. 1, 2012, Darien, Conn. Photo: Jeanna Petersen Shepard -
Beau Taylor looks out her bedroom window, where she has spent an inordinate amount of time since her day of diagnosis early last May. Oct. 1, 2012, Darien, Conn. Photo: Jeanna Petersen Shepard -
Beau Taylor holds the ponytail of hair that she had cut once she started losing her hair from chemo. Behind her, on her bedroom wall, is a medley of significant mementos: her personal artistic rendering of Marilyn Monroe; a photo of herself with her waist-length hair; her Make-A-Wish foundation letter where she was granted a trip to Hawaii for her family; and a Susan G. Komen Foundation calendar. Oct. 1, 2012, Darien, Conn. Photo: Jeanna Petersen Shepard -
Happy to have the intense cancer treatment over, Beau Taylor still takes "a million pills a day" - but plans make the best of her senior year at Darien High School. Oct. 1, 2012, Darien, Conn. Photo: Jeanna Petersen Shepard -
Beau Taylor and her mother, Lisa Taylor, enjoy their time together, having clearly been through some very tough months. Oct. 1, 2012, Darien, Conn. Photo: Jeanna Petersen Shepard -
At home, Beau Taylor shows some love and appreciation for her mother, Lisa Taylor, after enduring several scary and painful months of cancer treatment. Oct. 1, 2012, Darien, Conn. Photo: Jeanna Petersen Shepard -
Beautiful Beau: Beau Taylor in remission in Darien, Conn., Oct. 1, 2012. Photo: Jeanna Petersen Shepard -
Beau Taylor, 17, battled cancer from May through August 2012. She said her father, Hap, shown above, was one of her biggest cheerleaders. Photo: Contributed Photo
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