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Article: "Aikido teacher works on despite illness"
Posted 5/11/2006 9:37am [from Jun Akiyama]
The Tennesseean newspaper has written up an article entitled, Aikido teacher works on despite illness on Kevin Sparkman sensei who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor called "brain-stem glioma" in April of 2005. The article quotes Sparkman as saying, "Even though I cannot move as well as I used to, I still want to help others. I'll keep doing this until I can't anymore."