Ateacher’s special gift
MAKING HIS STUDENT’S TRANSPLANT POSSIBLE
“It’s really incredible how far Damien has come”
— FINN LANNING
was an unexpectedly emotional moment for maths and science teacher Finn Lanning – who still remembers when Damien, then one of his seventh-grade students, told him why he wouldn’t be returning to AXL Academy in Aurora, Colorado, following the school’s Thanksgiving break in November 2018. “He was one of the few new students,” recalls Lanning. “He was studious and smart and funny, and he
