After this 13-year-old died of cancer, her family found an incredibly moving message behind her mirror

[post_page_title]What she deserved[/post_page_title]
Another cousin, Remi Hewitt, concluded with the family’s own feelings about the funeral. “She got the send off she deserved,” he stated. “It was beautiful and so was she.” Those sentiments were stated incredibly simply, but sometimes there’s power in the simplest of words.

Adults tend to overcomplicate things – children do not. It was Athena herself who said it best: “Be happy, be free, believe, forever young. You know my name, not my story.” She was wrong on that last one – now the whole world knew her story.