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Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br />
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Kevin Ballantine's family including his father Dave Ballantine (from left to right), mother Diane DeMers, sister Pooja Ballantine and brother Keerti Ballantine are seen in their DeKalb home on Saturday afternoon. Kevin Ballantine, 23, died in January after a long battle with leukemia. Before he passed away, family and friends wrote letters to Ballantine that expressed how he touched their lives, which his mother Diane collected and placed them in a red binder with the words "Be The Change You Wish To See In The World" on the cover.

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Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

Kevin Ballantine's family including his father Dave Ballantine (from left to right), mother Diane DeMers, sister Pooja Ballantine and brother Keerti Ballantine are seen in their DeKalb home on Saturday afternoon. Kevin Ballantine, 23, died in January after a long battle with leukemia. Before he passed away, family and friends wrote letters to Ballantine that expressed how he touched their lives, which his mother Diane collected and placed them in a red binder with the words "Be The Change You Wish To See In The World" on the cover.