6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Love Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her Death

6岁脑癌女童过世后，父母发现她身前写给他们的“爱的纸条”藏在家中各处……

When 6-year-old Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer, she began hiding hundreds of little love notes around the house for her parents to find after she was gone. Here’s the story:
当六岁的Elena Desserich被确诊脑癌之后，她写了上百条“爱的小纸条”藏在家中各处，让父母能在她过世后找到。下面是她的故事：

Just before her sixth birthday, Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer and given 135 days to live. She lived 255 days, passing away in 2007. After her death, Elena’s parents, Brooke and Keith, found hundreds of notes from Elena hidden around the house — in between CD cases, between bookshelves, in dresser drawers, in backpacks….
Elena Desserich 刚满六岁就被诊断为脑癌，并只剩135天的生命。她最终活了225天，在2007年去世。Elena死后，她的父母Brooke 和 Keith 在家中发现了上百张小纸条，都是Elena身前藏在家中的：藏在CD架里、书架上、衣柜、背包……

"It just felt like a little hug from her, like she was telling us she was looking over us."
“就像是感觉到她轻轻抱住了我们，像是她在告诉我们说她看着我们。”

Elena left hundreds of notes like these:
Elena 留下的部分纸条如下：

Elena’s parents, Brooke and Keith Desserich, have now published these notes in a book called Notes Left Behind to fund a non-profit organization The Cure Stars. Now dedicated to fighting pediatric brain cancer.
Elena 的父母现在已经将这些小纸条出版为一本叫《留下的字条》（Notes Left Behind）的书，以建立一个非盈利组织“治疗之星”。这个组织将致力于与儿童脑癌做斗争。