The Washington Post, December 21st, 2001
Today at approximately 10:05 a.m., Analicia Carpio, 13, will stand in the middle of Wilson Boulevard in Arlington and wait for her turn to carry the Olympic flame a little closer to Utah. Analicia is one of 11,500 people chosen to carry the Olympic torch as it makes its way to the Winter Olympics. It will light the caldron in Salt Lake City on Feb. 8. More than 200,000 people were nominated to be torchbearers. In a nominating essay, Sunhee Carpio told how her daughter had overcome kidney cancer as a 3-year-old and today is president of the student council at Thoreau Middle School in Vienna, a...
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