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Earlier, Hillier sent Gabriella a text: “I’ve admired you and your courage but I’ve never admired you as much as I have this month.” Moments like these feel like living funerals for Gabriella, an opportunity for people to say goodbye while she is still alive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1663800059884-TLIZUP1PIVW5CGZXWJTS/946865_la-me-death-doula_36.jpg one final trip Gabriella has her last session with a therapist she has seen off and on since 2009 on Friday, July 1, 2022 in Santa Paula, CA. “I just feel like time is moving really slowly,” She told her therapist. “I want it to be July 16.” The date she chose to die. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1663800059595-OSGPYWNJJZ9MKXFZ9ME3/946865_la-me-death-doula_33.jpg one final trip A photograph of Gabriella Walsh and her father was one of the last mementos she had on display in her home before dying through medical aid. Gabriella had many early experiences with death, including the death of her father when she was 7. She recalls pulling up a chair and sitting next to his body without fear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1663800060644-DI6QV95EWXEQWPB2T8C8/946865_la-me-death-doula_40A.jpg one final trip Gabriella smiles as the closing credits of Where the Crawdad Sings play at a movie theater where she was joined by her dear friends on her last full day of life before dying through medical aid on July 15, 2022 in Oxnard, CA. Gabriella listened to audio books at night to relax before sleep and earlier she had listened to Where the Crawdad Sings. So when she discovered that the movie would open the Friday before she died she made a plan with her friends to go. A line in the movie says, “I don't know if there is a dark side to nature. Just inventive ways to endure, against all odds.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1663800061291-5VQ7B3ZD9W52J3YIS7XB/946865_la-me-death-doula_50.jpg one final trip Rudy Sanzana, a friend of more than 30 years hugs Gabriella one last time before she dies through medical aid on July 16, 2022 in Santa Paula, CA. When Gabriella was diagnosed with terminal cancer she did not consider life extending treatments but rather quality of the time she had left. She said she was not afraid of death. “I just feel like I’m going on a trip,” she said, calmly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1663800061454-9IE72IU2RFL3HRCQYP0Q/946865_la-me-death-doula_53.jpg one final trip Gabriella takes a fatal dose of medication prescribed through California’s death-with-dignity law with her death doula Jill Schock, right, feeding her spoonfuls of mango between sips on on July 16, 2022 in Santa Paula, CA. She died at 1:38 p.m. She was 64. https://www.daniamaxwell.com/singles daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1713714796529-5V75H5S4P66XVAZP0T59/1424952-me-calexico-transgender-councilmember-recall_dpm_104.JPG editorial Person with sunglasses and colorful dress standing on railroad tracks, looking up with hands raised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1651266838973-A9N9JLB30AP8HOUPIV8D/885242-la-hm-lonely-in-the-city_310.JPG editorial Los Angeles’s Interstate 110 at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1682535205516-GUE5QY9YNSK5XKY9YY0A/1283105-et-coachella-liveblog_day2_355.JPG editorial Coachella, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1698083928191-H11YJANAR5KLF1RLNCNX/1354024-fi-discrimination-immigrant-workers-sharon_125.JPG editorial A woman with long, curly red hair standing in front of a bush with pink flowers under a clear blue sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1696962984711-KYSSGQMPKT9L677JB06P/1343732-Healthcare-workers-rally_269.JPG editorial A woman in a blue outfit is being detained by a police officer during a protest. The woman is holding a sign that reads, 'I am an LVN for 40 years fighting for patient care.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1707767615056-JSY63YI5DEH6G8EF71US/1400261-wk-rita-earl-blackwell_424.JPG editorial A woman sitting on the grass, hugging and playing with a Siberian Husky in front of a corrugated metal fence, with shadows cast on the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1713714124777-2EEJUMEPH9JXS350ZNC5/1419855-la-me-pizza-hut-strike_64.JPG editorial People participating in a protest or rally, holding signs and flags, seen through a reflective or torn surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1576107045183-0VM9UQSGYN1AI2PEGSL7/473913_la-fg-col1-mexico-tijuana-school_1182.JPG editorial Arianna plays after class at a school run by Yes We Can Mobile Schools, a nonprofit formed to support migrant children staying on Mexico's northern border while they wait for U.S. authorities to accept or deny their asylum applications in Tijuana, Mexico in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1573579590853-FQMYEHI0JDMZKBV10WGH/462352_la-sp-trona-high-football_1032a.JPG editorial The Trona High football team practices in 108 degree weather in 2019. 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Lora Lee was destined to be a big movie star in the 40s and vanished. Isaac had been looking for her since the 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1624472542099-WWEIC0YE8A6Z41XZUJHI/678933-me-ucla-harbor-hospital_216.JPG editorial Hospital doctors and nurses treat COVID-19 patients in a makeshift ICU wing at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in December, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1603305532271-87V65HJ18KCVHTRLBULS/601789_la-me-jacob-blake-demonstration_997.JPG editorial A line of protestors hold their hands up with LAPD blocking them on both sides, following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by a police officer. Police fired rubber bullet guns and eventually protestors agreed to let go of their shields and police made 10 arrests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1573579598358-G5BMO7I6QGBHGKBYJ4MF/la-na-pol-trump-remain-in-mexico-asylum-seekers-border-20190828_1318.JPG editorial Migrants walk towards the kitchen for a meal at Cobina Posada del Migrante in 2019 in Mexicali, Mexico. Under the “Remain in Mexico” policy, Trump Homeland Security officials have forced a record 35,000 asylum seekers back to Mexico in less than seven months, to wait for their U.S cases in some of the world’s most dangerous cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1542315643129-H7P9SCG75I59EKSVE0SK/20180924_dpm_IceRaid_543.JPG editorial An ICE agent prepares to frisk during an arrest in 2018 in Orange County, Calif. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1558478728970-UFK6AQ2JRRYOVBTC1R1E/review_81.JPG editorial Amanda Santos, Gena Valencia, Ruben Valencia, Taylor Santos and Emily Valencia, left to right, meet Raul Guerra’s casket after waiting more than 50 years to bring him home at Los Angeles International Airport on April 23, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. Ruben and Raul met in the fifth grade. They went to church together, ate hot dogs together. Raul was Ruben’s best man at his wedding. In 1967 Guerra, 24, was killed serving in Vietnam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1592251410652-BDHCAYX8RTE1PTLCOKFN/524217_la-me-coronavirus-cops_2417.JPG editorial Officer Nick Ferara, center, with officer Dan Brown, right, hand Victoria Taboada a game for her daughter, Victoria, 3, in San Pedro in 2020. Community members nominated other community members to be recipients of 150 free food and essential item bags and gift cards to 99cents Only Store and Target. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1485285510828-W7JHWDAPUT37L130QF7P/20160118_DPM_Orientame_158.JPG editorial A doctor performs an abortion at a women’s reproductive health clinic on January 18, 2016, in Bogotá, Colombia. Colombia has relatively liberal abortion laws compared to some of its South American neighbors - women can legally gets abortions when their health is in danger, the fetus is severely deformed or in cases of rape - but political opposition and bureaucratic hurdles make access difficult and drive women to dangerous illegal procedures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1519661959655-BYP0JHEEK025C48JLUPZ/20180126_MUDSLIDEEVACS_17.JPG editorial Senior deputy Dennis Thomas leads survivors of a devastating mudslide through a home to search for belongings in Santa Barbara, Calif. on January 26, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1562702684237-I0GQM9KDPWZAJW45Z209/3078969_la-he-outdoors-skateboard-parks-guide-venice_20a.JPG editorial Ethan DeMoulin on one of many attempts to jump over a gap at Venice Skate Park on May 7, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. The skatepark is one of the ones in the world located on a beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1713714200188-OJDJR7SMMP2FSLFESATF/1422878-sp-la-marathon-finish_dpm_923.JPG editorial Three runners lying on the ground resting behind a metal fence after a race, with water bottles and hydration gear nearby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1689275520516-PCCI95C9M0HZZW2HXXXI/547323-la-me-blm-protest-dtla_711.JPG editorial People holding a burning American flag during a protest at dusk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1689275522447-YQSM81442EFJVG6JAXWI/670684_la-me-english-learners_2857.JPG editorial Two women holding hands outdoors against a clear blue sky, one facing forward and the other turned away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1689275522223-G5BOTRBVX4SCDTRI8JMM/659177_Thanksgiving-in-hospitals-and-nursing-homes-amid-a-surge-of-COVID-19-ARARAT-HOME_130.JPG editorial A woman wearing a face shield and mask is tending to an elderly woman in a wheelchair at a dining table. The elderly woman is wearing a black hat and patterned top. 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One woman is making a dance move, another is smiling and looking down, and others are engaged in arranging flowers or holding drinks. The table has drinks, plates, and flowers. The setting is bright and modern, with hanging plants and white walls. https://www.daniamaxwell.com/a-kindred-birth daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252772035-YGPROJVM6DBA1YO9K5TZ/tiana_4.jpeg a kindred birth Two days overdue, Tiana Wright rests for a moment while walking around her neighborhood on February 23, 2022 in Temple City, California. She is birthing at Kindred Space LA, where midwives Kimberly Durdin and Allegra Hill recommend daily walks to help start labor. Even though decades of research document the ways that conventional maternity care can endanger Black women, Kindred Space is one of relatively few Black-owned birthing centers in the nation and the only one in Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252448625-LN4AH0FICVLLBC80DR3B/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_37.JPG a kindred birth Gladys Sanchez pre-labors at home with partner Justin Charlton in 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. The Kindred Space encourage clients to unpack their fears. With tears falling down her cheek she asks, “how much more painful is it going to get.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252449830-148HR1410JBL449CLO8T/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_5.JPG a kindred birth At 27-weeks-pregnant, Tamara Robertson visits the beach with her children on Oct. 8, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Tamara birthed Robert and Christian, left and center, and her other two boys at a hospital but she never shook the feeling that she was in jeopardy. She plans to deliver her fifth baby with the Kindred Space midwives. Black women are nearly four times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than white women. These stats make the birth process feel like a life-or-death ordeal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252450533-XQHJ3PBGH30H8M2RIOC0/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_1.JPG a kindred birth Tamara Robertson is examined by midwife Kimberly Durdin during her 26-week check-up at Kindred Space on Sept. 30, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. Tamara’s four boys, partner and younger brother are with her and invited to participate with questions during the hour-long visit. In turn, Kimberly gives the kids tips on how they can help and what they can expect from a pregnant mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252451138-4YRP9U7A6FSUN0XYBSNE/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_38.JPG a kindred birth Midwife Allegra Hill and doula Andrey Lemon, left, work with Gladys Sanchez as she labors in a birthing tub in downtown on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. Research has shown that women with low-risk pregnancies fare better when cared for by midwives instead of obstetricians, said Dr. Emiliano Chavira, a maternal and fetal specialist. However if problems arise, clients like Gladys, who was not dilating properly, are transferred to a hospital. “I feel empathy for clients who don’t have the birth they want,” midwife Allegra Hill said. “Sometimes they apologize to us. But this is real life. There is no expectation that things will be perfect.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252451666-L0U1EYM19M3CX2MW7BFO/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_43.JPG a kindred birth Gladys Sanchez labors at home with her partner, midwives and a doula in downtown on Sunday, April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. The midwives are in constant risk assessment for the birthing person and baby while keeping their wishes in mind and after laboring for many hours without full dilation everyone decided it was best for Gladys to transfer to a hospital where she received an epidural and delivered her baby girl the following morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252452184-A06KU92LZEEQV50BWCS4/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_44.JPG a kindred birth Aijalon Redd holds her baby girl, Tori Davison for the very first time after delivering her at Kindred Space LA, a birthing, education, and support facility owned and operated by Black midwives in South LA on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. Tori is the first baby girl to be born in the center after midwives Allegra Hill and Kimberly Durdin opened the center mid-pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252453182-15QEOGGCOV30QWFYGDXK/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_74.JPG a kindred birth Seconds after delivering Indigo Amani Cavil, Ashanique Nelson-Cavil holds her with husband William Iman Cavil at Kindred Space LA on Friday, May 28, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. “One day she will know she was caught by Black hands,” Ashanique said. The oft-used phrase “Have Black hands catch your baby” reflects the midwives’ protective value of Black sisterhood and the comfort of feeling understood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252453387-6XCZJQFOFIX31WFECHN6/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_48.JPG a kindred birth Aijalon Redd breastfeeds her baby girl, Tori Davison for the very first time after delivering at Kindred Space LA, a birthing, education, and support facility owned and operated by Black midwives in Hyde Park on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252454254-C4S4TM4ZFEKG1H9KOYHD/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_49.JPG a kindred birth Midwife Kimberly Durdin examines newborn Tori Davison, with father Dontori Davison at Kindred Space LA, a birthing, education, and support facility owned and operated by Black midwives in Hyde Park on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252454869-U6N5F1J0IK2IQ5YYDL02/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_51.JPG a kindred birth Dontory Davison holds his baby girl, Tori Davison, after her birth at Kindred Space LA,. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252455582-MRCU48IDD3V2ZGLWWZW1/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_53.JPG a kindred birth Dontory Davison and Aijalon Redd lie in bed with their two children an hour after their baby girl, Tori Davison was born at Kindred Space LA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252456412-G5K3U1JBNZLOI7RL8SGA/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_59.JPG a kindred birth After a postpartum visit from a Kindred Space midwife, the Davison family hangs on their front porch with one-week-old Tori on May 4, 2021 in South Los Angeles, California. The Kindred Space midwives have begun the certification process to make their care eligible for Medical coverage, which would make care more accessible for low-income women. In the meantime, some of their birthing people like Aijalon Davison, left, have had their care funded by the Victoria Project in partnership with the Black Maternal Healthcare Fund and the Sugar Heal Gang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1660252456928-YF29JPBX9HI7ZU94JH38/635461_la-me-black-birth-workers_32.JPG a kindred birth Christian Wright holds his baby sister, Reauxm Joseph at home in San Pedro on Feb. 10, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. Reauxm’s mother planned a home birth with the Kindred Space midwives. However, midwives can only deliver a person in labor between 37 and 42 weeks and Reauxm was two weeks overdue. 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Doctors believe that he could expect to live another nine months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133624121-XQ1TE4PW1SJBUE1K57QA/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_4.jpg little man Ethan Arbelo, Maria Maldonado and Lea Sellwood, left to right, look out onto the desert at a meteor impact site on June 25, 2013, just outside of Winslow, Ariz. With Ethan's help, Maria put an itinerary together for a cross-country road trip so Ethan could see faraway places. They invited Lea, a 9-year-old friend with leukemia they knew from All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg and were on their way. “This is a beautiful view, ain’t it?” Ethan said. “B-E-A-U-tiful.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133636999-MI6CLTCNV85C0K9ULWQW/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_5.jpg little man Maria Maldonado shaves 11-year-old Ethan Arbelo’s mustache for the first time on July 31, 2013, in Lehigh Acres, Fla. Ethan was proud of the visible sign that he was becoming a man. “It’s my respect,” he would say about the hair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133649544-9TPQD4ZEFIBN602EM16Q/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_6.jpg little man Ethan Arbelo, 11, kisses 26-year-old Ashley Schroeder at a mud park named The Redneck Yacht Club on May 25, 2013 in Punta Gorda, Fla. Ethan's mom took him to the mud park as a compromise after Ethan asked for a stripper for his 12th birthday. It was the first time Ethan had kissed a girl. “It felt like ice cream melting on my tongue,” he said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133666458-B0EZ5L99NH2TO5UBGGHP/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_7.jpg little man Ethan Arbelo plays a game of pool with his dad Jose Arbelo on his 12th birthday at Diamond Billiards on August 10, 2013, in Cape Coral, Fla. After Ethan’s diagnosis, his dad was an infrequent visitor. Ethan said: “All [he] did was cause me pain. Where the f [was he] when I was at the hospital?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133680105-A3FEJU0DWRU9V6CDATDK/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_8.jpg little man Ethan Arbelo, 11, plays in the backyard of a friend’s home who also has terminal cancer on April 10, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Ethan often found himself imagining superhero scenarios. “I like them so much because, just as someone is about to die, they swoop in and save them,” he said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133693326-JBM95F6QHWLPTWRNDTU7/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_9.jpg little man Maria Maldonado puts on 12-year-old Ethan Arbelo’s shoes as he looks at his homecoming date Lydianna Mize on October 12, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Fla. The dance was hosted by All Children’s Hospital for pediatric patients. “I’m nervous for Ethan,” Maria said. “This might be his first and last homecoming.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133721346-K2EHA8L3XJCJ33GQSNCU/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_10.jpg little man Ethan Arbelo, 12, waits for the oncologist with his mom, Maria Maldonado, shortly after a radiologist delivered news from an MRI that shows new tumors growing in his brain at All Children’s Hospital on September 24, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Maria is hit hard by the news and writes to a friend, “I need a minute to breath before heading home.” Meanwhile, Ethan, jets his hands into the air and said, “I’m superman.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133715786-BF7WAQXTEI6I9HP5YCKJ/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_11.jpg little man While playing video games, Maria Maldonado yells at Ethan Arbelo, 12, for not putting more effort into using his left arm, which had begun to paralyze from swelling in his brain on December 2, 2013, in Lehigh Acres, Fla. As Ethan’s sole caregiver, Maria struggled at times with managing her stress and finding a balance of tough love with Ethan as his condition worsened. "This is his battle and he needs to fight with everything in his power, no matter how hard it gets," Maria said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434066005400-W2TE5H34UDD91KULEFAG/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_12.jpg little man Maria Maldonado gives Ethan Arbelo, 12, one last hug before he heads for an MRI on November, 20, 2013 at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. The MRI will show that a tumor has taken over Ethan’s brain and cancer has spread into his spine. Doctors will inform them that there is not much more they can do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133736317-V70ZAEF2FGUGMQFN224B/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_13.jpg little man Reggie Iacono, right, helps Ethan Arbelo, 12, choose a poster for his bedroom while out for a boys’ day on February 21, 2014 in Fort Myers, Fla. Reggie, the son of one of Maria’s friends, moved in with Maria and Ethan in January to act as Ethan’s caregiver for a few months while Maria was back at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133762177-QP08OYGMSI2Z7TBL4NXN/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_14.jpg little man Jose “Tito” Arbelo decompresses in Lehigh Acres, Fla., on January 17, 2014 after an argument with his ex-wife Maria Maldonado about his absence in the life of their son, Ethan Arbelo, after he was diagnosed with cancer. Tito surrendered full custody of Ethan to Maria shortly after his diagnosis. A third-grade school portrait of Ethan from two years before his diagnosis hangs on the wall beside him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133775132-3ZZN99O70W14A6I2ZWQ9/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_15.jpg little man Too weak to walk on January 17, 2014, Ethan Arbelo, 12, plays with Superman action figures in a reclining chair where he spends most of his days in Lehigh Acres, Fla. “It’s heartbreaking watching your child revert,” Maria said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133789058-7JGHSGNA0O310ZRBRUZZ/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_16.jpg little man Maria Maldonado sits in the Gulf of Mexico with her 12-year-old son, Ethan Arbelo, after he requested to take a dip on April 16, 2014, on Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Two friends helped Maria carry Ethan to the ocean, one of his favorite places. It was the last time he visited the beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133803087-4OV753A2VXI7BZCYK68A/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_17.jpg little man Maria Maldonado and Ethan Arbelo, 12, watch as violinist Nanette Grant plays a private concert on June 12, 2014 in Lehigh Acres, Fla. “I’ll do anything to get his spirits up,” Maria said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133815066-FVKKV2NYUROAMKFUUZMW/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_18.jpg little man Maria Maldonado prepares Ethan Arbelo, 12, for sleep on May 21, 2014, in Lehigh Acres, Fla. Ethan was losing his eyesight due to the buildup of fluid inside his brain. “It feels like I’m losing my best friend,” Maria said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133828763-I4ERQA7PRFMNO1WK1JXB/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_19.jpg little man Maria Maldonado cries hugging Ethan Arbelo, 12, as he transitions into death on July, 3, 2014, in Lehigh Acres, Fla. “In those last minutes when you know your son is taking those last breaths, all you’re doing is praying for death for you too because you can’t imagine life without your baby,” Maria said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a17f7e4b0e60cd919ad51/1434133849542-1115OVSWFJC3B87W8TVO/LittleMan_daniamaxwell_20.jpg little man Maria Maldonado watches on as Marine pallbearers carry the casket containing her son, Ethan Arbelo. In October, Ethan was named an honorary Marine. 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