It was one of those trips that brings couples together – a getaway to celebrate 15 years of marriage and to forget the weight of the last few years. A chance for Erik and Kelley to put behind them the bad loans, the failed real estate investments and the bankruptcy. This was a chance to escape across the country, just the two of them, and to stop stressing about Luke.

But Kelley couldn’t stop worrying about their son back home. “Erik and I had a huge fight in San Francisco,” she recalls.

When they landed back in South Carolina, Luke had red spots all over his legs.The ER doctors delivered the news: cancer.

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