114th Year, 36th Issue Thursday, April 17, 2003 Sparta, North Carolina

Hamm (15K) Miranda Hamm pauses for a photograph at the Alleghany County Library.

Hamm battles back after breast cancer

By ROBBY LUCKE
Staff

Miranda Hamm of Ennice is a bright, attractive young woman with an upbeat personality and a promising future. She grew up in Alleghany and was a cheerleader at Alleghany High School, where she graduated in 2000. Hamm is attending Surry Community College, where she expects to get her associate's degree in paralegal and criminal justice this July. She plans to continue her studies beyond that, possibly including law school.

If you don't know her story, you would never guess the physically and emotionally devastating, life-threatening ordeal that she has gone through.

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