Sayings such as "I'm bossy but a little bit polite" or "I triple madly love you" or her parents' favorite, "Love is a superpower. Maybe it was because she was so surrounded by love and had such big plans of her own. Or as her mother said at her funeral Saturday, Julianna never felt sorry for herself. Julianna certainly had every right to feel resentful that she was, as her father put it, imprisoned in her body. Julianna knew that other children could run and jump and play and eat food instead of having it delivered through a tube.

Source: CNN June 21, 2016 10:52 UTC