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Well, good afternoon.

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How many of you

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took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge?

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(Applause)

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Woo hoo!

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Well, I have to tell you,[br]from the bottom of our hearts,

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thank you so very, very much.

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Do you know to date the ALS Association

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has raised 125 million dollars?

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Woo hoo! (Applause)

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It takes me back to the summer of 2011.

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My family, my kids had all grown up.

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We were officially empty nesters,

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and we decided,[br]let's go on a family vacation.

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Jenn, my daughter, and my son-in-law

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came down from New York.

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My youngest, Andrew,

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he came down from his home in Charlestown

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where he was working in Boston,

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and my son Pete,

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who had played at Boston College,[br]baseball,

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had played baseball professionally[br]in Europe,

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and had now come home and was selling[br]group insurance, he also joined us.

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And one night, I found myself

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having a beer with Pete,

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and Pete was looking at me[br]and he just said,

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"You know, Mom, I don't know,

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selling group insurance[br]is just not my passion."

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He said, "I just don't feel[br]I'm living up to my potential.

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I don't feel this is my mission in life."

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And he said, "You know,[br]oh by the way, Mom,

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I have to leave early from vacation

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because my inter-city league team[br]that I play for made the playoffs,

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and I have to get back to Boston[br]because I can't let my team down.

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I'm just not as passionate about my job

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as I am about baseball."

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So off Pete went,[br]and left the family vacation -

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break a mother's heart -

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and he went,[br]and we followed four days later

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to see the next playoff game.

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We're at the playoff game,[br]Pete's at the plate,

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and a fastball's coming in,

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and it hits him on the wrist.

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Oh, Pete.

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His wrist went completely limp, like this.

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So for the next six months,

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Pete went back to his home in Southie,

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kept working that unpassionate job,

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and was going to doctors

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to see what was wrong with this wrist

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that never came back.

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Six months later, in March,

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he called my husband and me, and he said,

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"Oh, Mom and Dad, we have a doctor

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that found a diagnosis for that wrist.

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Do you want to come[br]with the doctor's appointment with me?"

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I said, "Sure, we'll come in."

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That morning, Pete, John and I

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all got up, got dressed, got in our cars -

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three separate cars

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because we were going to go to work

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after the doctor's appointment to find out[br]what happened to the wrist.

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We walked into the neurologist's office,[br]sat down,

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four doctors walk in,

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and the head neurologist sits down.

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And he says, "Well, Pete,[br]we've been looking at all the tests,

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and I have to tell you,[br]it's not a sprained wrist,

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it's not a broken wrist,

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it's not nerve damage in the wrist,

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it's not an infection,

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it's not Lyme disease."

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And there was this[br]deliberate elimination going up,

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and I was thinking to myself,

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where is he going with this?

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Then he put his hands on his knees,

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he looked right at my 27-year-old kid,[br]and said,

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"I don't know how to tell[br]a 27-year-old this:

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Pete, you have ALS."

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ALS?

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I had had a friend[br]whose 80-year-old father had ALS.

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I looked at my husband, he looked at me,

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and then we looked at the doctor,[br]and we said, "ALS?

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Okay, what treatment? Let's go.

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What do we do? Let's go."

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And he looked at us, and he said,[br]"Mr. and Mrs. Frates,

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I'm sorry to tell you this,

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but there's no treatment[br]and there's no cure."

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We were the worst culprits.

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We didn't even understand

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that it had been 75 years since Lou Gehrig

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and nothing had been done[br]in the progress against ALS.

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So we all went home, and Jenn and Dan

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flew home from Wall Street,

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Andrew came home from Charlestown,

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and Pete went to B.C. to pick up

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his then-girlfriend Julie[br]and brought her home,

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and six hours later after diagnosis,

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we're sitting around[br]having a family dinner,

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and we're having small chat.

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I don't even remember[br]cooking dinner that night.

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But then our leader, Pete, set the vision,

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and talked to us[br]just like we were his new team.

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He said,[br]"There will be no wallowing, people."

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He goes, "We're not looking back,

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we're looking forward.

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What an amazing opportunity we have[br]to change the world.

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I'm going to change the face

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of this unacceptable situation of ALS.

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We're going to move the needle,

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and I'm going to get it in front[br]of philanthropists like Bill Gates."

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And that was it.[br]We were given our directive.

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So in the days and months that followed,

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within a week,[br]we had our brothers and sisters

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and our family come to us,

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that they were already creating[br]Team Frate Train.

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Uncle Dave, he was the webmaster;

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Uncle Artie, he was the accountant;

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Auntie Dana, she was the graphic artist;

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and my youngest son, Andrew,

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quit his job, left his apartment[br]in Charlestown

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and says, "I'm going to take care[br]of Pete and be his caregiver."

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Then all those people,[br]classmates, teammates,

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coworkers that Pete had inspired

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throughout his whole life,

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the circles of Pete all started[br]intersecting with one another,

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and made Team Frate Train.

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Six months after diagnosis,

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Pete was given an award[br]at a research summit for advocacy.

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He got up and gave a very eloquent speech,

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and at the end of the speech,[br]there was a panel,

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and on the panel were these[br]pharmaceutical executives

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and biochemists and clinicians

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and I'm sitting there[br]and I'm listening to them

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and most of the content[br]went straight over my head.

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I avoided every science class[br]I ever could.

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But I was watching these people,[br]and I was listening to them,

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and they were saying,[br]"I, I do this, I do that,"

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and there was a real unfamiliarity[br]between them.

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So at the end of their talk, the panel,

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they had questions and answers,

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and boom, my hand went right up,

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and I get the microphone,

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and I look at them and I say, "Thank you.

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Thank you so much for working in ALS.

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It means so very much to us."

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I said, "But I do have to tell you

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that I'm watching your body language

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and I'm listening to what you're saying.

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It just doesn't seem like there's a whole[br]lot of collaboration going on here.

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And not only that, where's the flip chart

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with the action items and the follow-up[br]and the accountability?

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What are you going to do[br]after you leave this room?"

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And then I turned around

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and there was about 200 pairs of eyes[br]just staring at me.

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And it was that point that I realized

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that I had talked about[br]the elephant in the room.

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Thus my mission had begun.

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So over the next couple of years,

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Pete - we've had our highs and our lows.

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Pete was put on a compassionate use drug.

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It was hope in a bottle[br]for the whole ALS community.

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It was in a phase III trial.

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Then six months later,[br]the data comes back: no efficacy.

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We were supposed[br]to have therapies overseas,

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and the rug was pulled out from under us.

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So for the next two years,

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we just watched my son[br]be taken away from me,

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little by little every day.

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Two and a half years ago,

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Pete was hitting home runs[br]at baseball fields.

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Today, Pete's completely paralyzed.

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He can't hold his head up any longer.

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He's confined to a motorized wheelchair.

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He can no longer swallow or eat.

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He has a feeding tube.

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He can't speak.

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He talks with eye gaze technology

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and a speech generating device,

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and we're watching his lungs,

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because his diaphragm[br]eventually is going to give out

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and then the decision will be made[br]to put him on a ventilator or not.

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ALS robs the human[br]of all their physical parts,

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but the brain stays intact.

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So July 4th, 2014,

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75th year of Lou Gehrig's[br]inspirational speech comes,

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and Pete is asked by MLB.com to write[br]an article in the Bleacher Report.

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And it was very significant, because[br]he wrote it using his eye gaze technology.

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Twenty days later,[br]the ice started to fall.

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On July 27th, Pete's roommate[br]in New York City,

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wearing a Quinn For The Win shirt,

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signifying Pat Quinn, another ALS patient[br]known in New York,

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and B.C. shorts

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said, "I'm taking the ALS[br]Ice Bucket Challenge,"

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picked up the ice, put it over his head.

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"And I'm nominating ..."[br]And he sent it up to Boston.

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And that was on July 27th.

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Over the next couple of days,[br]our news feed

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was full of family and friends.

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If you haven't gone back,[br]the nice thing about Facebook

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is that you have the dates,[br]you can go back.

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You've got to see Uncle Artie's[br]human Bloody Mary.

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I'm telling you,[br]it's one of the best ones,

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and that was probably in day two.

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By about day four, Uncle Dave,[br]the webmaster,

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he isn't on Facebook,

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and I get a text from him,[br]and it says, "Nancy,

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what the hell is going on?"

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Uncle Dave gets a hit[br]every time Pete's website

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is gone onto,[br]and his phone was blowing up.

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So we all sat down and we realized,

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money is coming in - how amazing.

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So we knew awareness[br]would lead to funding,

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we just didn't know it would[br]only take a couple of days.

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So we got together, put our best[br]501(c)(3)s on Pete's website,

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and off we went.

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So week one, Boston media.

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Week two, national media.

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It was during week two[br]that our neighbor next door

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opened up our door and threw a pizza

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across the kitchen floor, saying,

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"I think you people[br]might need food in there."

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(Laughter)

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Week three, celebrities -[br]Entertainment Tonight,

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Access Hollywood.

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Week four, global -[br]BBC, Irish Radio.

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Did anyone see "Lost In Translation"?

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My husband did Japanese television.

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It was interesting.

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(Laughter)

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And those videos, the popular ones.

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Paul Bissonnette's glacier video,[br]incredible.

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How about the redemption nuns of Dublin?

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Who's seen that one?

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It's absolutely fantastic.

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J.T., Justin Timberlake.

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That's when we knew,[br]that was a real A-list celebrity.

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I go back on my texts, and I can see

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"JT! JT!" My sister texting me.

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Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany.

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Incredible.

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And the ALS patients,

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you know what their favorite ones are,[br]and their families'?

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All of them.

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Because this misunderstood[br]and underfunded "rare" disease,

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they just sat and watched people[br]saying it over and over: "ALS, ALS."

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It was unbelievable.

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And those naysayers,

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let's just talk a couple of stats,[br]shall we?

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Okay, so the ALS Association,

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they think by year end,[br]it'll be 160 million dollars.

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ALS TDI in Cambridge,

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they raised three million dollars.

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Well, guess what?

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They had a clinical trial for a drug[br]that they've been developing.

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It was on a three-year track for funding.

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Two months.

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It's coming out starting in two months.

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(Applause)

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And YouTube has reported

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that over 150 countries have posted[br]Ice Bucket Challenges for ALS.

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And Facebook, 2.5 million videos,

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and I had the awesome adventure

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visiting the Facebook campus last week,

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and I said to them, "I know[br]what it was like in my house.

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I can't imagine what it was like[br]around here."

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All she said was, "Jaw-dropping."

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And my family's favorite video?

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Bill Gates.

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Because the night Pete was diagnosed,

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he told us that he was going to get ALS

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in front of philanthropists[br]like Bill Gates,

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and he did it.

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Goal number one, check.

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Now on to the treatment and cure.

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(Applause)

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So okay, after all of this ice,

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we know that it was much more

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than just pouring buckets of ice water[br]over your head,

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and I really would like to leave you

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with a couple of things[br]that I'd like you to remember.

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The first thing is,

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every morning when you wake up,

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you can choose to live your day[br]in positivity.

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Would any of you blame me

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if I just was in the fetal position

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and pulled the covers over my head[br]every day?

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No, I don't think anybody would blame me,

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but Pete has inspired us to wake up

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every morning[br]and be positive and proactive.

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I actually had to ditch support groups

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because everybody was in there saying

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that spraying their lawns with chemicals,

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that's why they got ALS,

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and I was like, "I don't think so,"

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but I had to get away from the negativity.

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The second thing I want to leave you with

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is the person at the middle[br]of the challenge

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has to be willing to have[br]the mental toughness

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to put themselves out there.

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Pete still goes to baseball games

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and he still sits with his teammates[br]in the dugout,

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and he hangs his gravity feed bag

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right on the cages.

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You'll see the kids,[br]they're up there hanging it up.

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"Pete, is that okay?" "Yup."

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And then they put it[br]right into his stomach.

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Because he wants them to see[br]what the reality of this is,

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and how he's never,[br]ever going to give up.

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And the third thing[br]I want to leave you with:

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If you ever come across a situation

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that you see as so unacceptable,

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I want you to dig down as deep as you can

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and find your best mother bear

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and go after it.

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(Applause)

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Thank you.

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(Applause ends)

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I know that I'm running over,

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but I've got to leave you with this:

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the gifts that my son has given me.

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I have had 29 years

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of having the honor of being the mother

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of Pete Frates.

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Pete Frates has been inspiring[br]and leading his whole life.

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He's thrown out kindness,

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and all that kindness[br]has come back to him.

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He walks the face of the Earth[br]right now and knows why he's here.

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What a gift.

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The second thing that my son has given me

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is he's given me my mission in life.

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Now I know why I'm here.

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I'm going to save my son,

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and if it doesn't happen in time for him,

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I'm going to work so that no other mother

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has to go through what I'm going through.

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And the third thing,[br]and last but not least

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gift that my son has given me,

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as an exclamation point

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to the miraculous month

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of August 2014:

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That girlfriend that he went to get[br]on the night of diagnosis is now his wife,

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and Pete and Julie have given me[br]my granddaughter, Lucy Fitzgerald Frates.

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Lucy Fitzgerald Frates[br]came two weeks early

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as the exclamation point

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on August 31st, 2014.

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And so -

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(Applause) -

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And so let me leave you[br]with Pete's words of inspiration

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that he would use to classmates,[br]coworkers and teammates.

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Be passionate.

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Be genuine.

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Be hardworking.

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And don't forget to be great.

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Thank you. (Applause)