He was introduced to strangers every day in his hospital bed. They didn't know Beau Slocumb. But they knew his name. They knew his story.
They knew that doing something as simple as writing 'BEAU' on a piece of paper and snapping a 3x5 might help Beau get through five months of chemotheropy that had sidetracked his journey toward a racing career.
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