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Cook: Why I ran the Cameron Bean Memorial 5k

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Cameron Bean lives.

How else can you explain what happened last Saturday, when a small town of runners woke up before dawn to descend upon the North Shore, all because of Cameron?

Everybody was calling it a 5k.

Really, it felt like something else.

“It felt like heaven on earth,” said Cameron’s mom, Lisa.