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As a boy fights brain cancer, family's friends donate time, manpower and materials to complete home construction

There are little reminders of 8-year-old Thomas Hearne all around his house. He has a habit of writing messages on scraps of paper and leaving them where his family members will find them.

For his big brother, he left this in the bathroom: "Dear Paul, thanks for playing with me — Thomas."

For anyone who happened near a hole in a wall, there was a crude rendition of a skull and crossbones and the misspelled warning: "Dager." That's how Thomas spelled "danger."

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