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Sometimes inspiration strikes when least expected. For Elizabeth Jae, founder of A Round of Applause youth magazine, her brush with a terminal illness moved her to inspire young people in her community.

When Jae was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and hyperthyroidism in 2010, she was told by doctors she only had three months to live. She remembers them explaining to her, vividly, that her “body was eating away at itself” ...