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  • [Katy Perry's "Firework"]

  • Newscaster: Zach Sobeich's soul is filled with lyrics racing against time.

  • Zach Sobiech with clouds. Very incredible story.

  • Zach Sobiech was diagnosed with a deadly form of bone cancer.

  • Katie Couric: After a four year battle marked by courage and grace,

  • Zach Sobiech died on May 20th.

  • News: His song "Clouds" reached number one on iTunes. The song has raised more than five

  • hundred thousand dollars. We will all remember Zach as the young man

  • from Stillwater, Minnesota who lost his battle with osteosarcoma, which is a rare and malignant

  • form of bone cancer. Rock the Cause has the honor of working with Laura Sobiech, Zach's

  • mom. One of the things you told me when you realized that you were going to lose Zach,

  • you had to put your hope into everything that came after. Can you talk to us about that?

  • Laura Sobiech: For me, in the cancer world we hear the word hope, so there's hope for

  • a cure, hope for more time, all those different forms of hope and so I had to figure out,

  • okay now what do I hope for. Because all those other things were taken off the table.

  • Laura: He died on a Monday and it was a Saturday and sort of had his foot in eternity's door.

  • And so when you would watch him, he was laying on the couch and he would reach out his hand.

  • He would act like he was throwing a baseball or football or turning the knobs on his amp.

  • At one point looked over and he was playing the guitar. But there was one time where he

  • was, like he was wanting to grab somebody's hand so I walked over and I grabbed his hand.

  • And it was so warm and rough from the medication he was taking and his fingers were calloused

  • from the guitar and he grabbed my hand really tight. I just held it to my cheek and then

  • he opened his eyes and I said, you don't have to stay here. You can go, and he said "Okay."

  • [alarm ringing]

  • Rob: He died in the morning, it was like six-forty.

  • You don't realize the emotion involved in death until you experience it.

  • Letting go was what it is. You're letting go of the connection with that person, at least on this earth.

  • It's tough, you know, we're a very stoic family from an emotion standpoint.

  • Things happen in this world that aren't always positive. And getting your mind around is it far or

  • isn't it fair, and in the end it took me forty-nine years to figure out that,

  • you know what, it just happens, guys.

  • Sam: The hardest part I think, I was talking to my mom about this.

  • The hardest part about him being gone are the moments that you forget that he's gone.

  • Those are the worst. Laura: That's something that I catch myself

  • doing too. Because you get so focused on, okay the next thing that I have to do, the

  • next thing I have to do, and then that's when I get caught off guard and it slams me really

  • hard that he's gone. I was getting together some stuff from his bedroom, like oh I need

  • to find that t-shirt, so I went down and I was sorting through his stuff and it just

  • breaks everything in me. Sammy: It was just such a weird feeling like

  • that his empty room was, like I felt like more like I was hanging out with Zach in his

  • room and he wasn't there at all. Laura: It's still such a sanctuary for us

  • to go and just be with him. I find more of him there that God is great.

  • Amy: There was one night, it was Sammy, Zach and I and it was actually in January when

  • he found out his cancer had grown we stayed up really late and all just kind of got really

  • emotional and started crying and Zach went in another room and Sammy and I were talking

  • and we're like, we're really going to need each other.

  • Amy: Sammy and I have a crazy connection where we can be together and talk about absolutely

  • anything and I know that she'll always have my back. She's like my sister!

  • Sammy: She's probably the one who gets it the most out of all of my friends. Because

  • yes she was Zach's girlfriend, but she was also his best friend. We're his best friends so we get it.

  • Sam: Our family dynamic I would describe as

  • kind of like, it was like a duality kind of. Me and Alli are really close, when Grace was

  • born, Zach formed a deep bond with Grace. They had some kind of weird like almost magical

  • way of interacting with each other that I didn't quite understand.

  • Amy: We both worry about Grace so much because we had to go to college and kind of be away

  • from it. Sammy: A huge distraction and then Grace is

  • like going to this new school where Zach went and I just remember hearing that she was bummed

  • not being able to like tell Zach about her teachers that he had too or how classes went.

  • Grace: Well, he was basically my other half and it really sucks to have that other half

  • ripped off of you. That's all. He was just my other half.

  • Alli: What's weird is nothing prepares you for losing your little brother. Like the hardest

  • part was right before he died and then after he died it just go so much easier because

  • I felt like I knew him in a way I have never known him before. Like I knew his spirit.

  • He like creeps into my life on a daily basis, like just the way he works. One example is

  • I had to move to Virginia, I got married eleven days after he died, so that was crazy and

  • turbulent, and I didn't really have time to process it, so I moved to Virginia and I was

  • sad and I would miss my family and I was depressed about the whole thing so we decided to get

  • a dog, a little wiener dog because Zach always wanted a pack of wiener dogs. We got him,

  • brought him home, and I looked at the certificate and Butters, our dog's birthday is the same

  • birthday as Zach's. So it was kind of just really bizarre coincidence.

  • Amy: This is me and a couple of Zach's closest friends. We decided to take a road trip, and

  • we took a picture out by a lighthouse and I posted it on Instagram and it was a cute

  • group picture and then I looked on the comments and someone said is that a "Z" in the clouds?

  • Sammy: And she goes "Oh my god!" Amy: Because I was just on my phone, and we're

  • walking down the streets of Duluth, like no way! And then I look at the picture closely

  • and there it was, but we never saw the cloud! We just saw it in the picture.

  • Laura: I've only had one dream, we had his funeral three days later and it was the night

  • of their Spring concert. So I went to it after the funeral and the dream that I had a couple

  • days later was of, I was walking to the front of that same auditorium and I turned back

  • from the front to look at the auditorium, I was looking for Zach, and he was behind

  • somebody and he just tipped his head like this so that I could see him,

  • just so I could see him, then he went back.

  • [Sammy singing "Clouds"]

  • Amy: Well, after he died there was just a crazy blow-up of people that heard his story.

  • Then his song spiked to number one on iTunes. Sammy: And I think it got to number one the

  • day of his funeral, so it was a crazy mix of feelings.

  • Sammy: Nobody knew how they were going to be after he died, I don't think anybody thought

  • that they would be totally, completely changed, we just didn't know how it was going to be.

  • And now like a year later it's not like I'm surprised about how we're doing I guess because

  • I had no expectations. I knew he was going to die, that was certain and everything after

  • was just a mystery. And now I'm here and I'm okay and I'm sad a lot about it, but I'm okay.

  • Amy: One time we just talked about what it would be like when he finally died and he

  • just said "you're going to be okay and eventually you're going to move on, but you have to promise

  • that you're never going to settle for anyone." And he said to find someone better than him,

  • which I don't think is possible. But I told him that I promised to do that. I feel so

  • lucky, I wouldn't trade anything and as hard as it was, I'm so glad that I got to know

  • him and be with him and be a part of this. Because it's so much bigger than any of us.

  • He was the best guy I've ever known and probably ever will know.

  • Laura: There were times throughout our experience that I just knew I need to write about this.

  • And so I did keep a journal, especially at the end. I wasn't sure it would be a book,

  • that was intimidating though, I didn't think I could write a book. But I also knew I would

  • lose those memories if I didn't write them down.

  • Sam: I think she knew that what had transpired over the last few years of Zach's life would

  • make a huge difference to a lot of people and touch a lot of hearts. And I've never

  • seen anyone quite so driven to do something. Laura: I was really grateful that I had a

  • project like that to jump in to because to me it would have felt almost like a betrayal

  • to go back to life the way it was, you know, and just like picking up and going on.

  • Rob: I read it from cover to cover in one day. I had never read any of the copy of it

  • before and I cried, I mean, I cried. Laura: It's not a story about a kid who dies,

  • it's a story about a kid who lives and brings hope to the world just like with his song

  • and with the video, I mean it was a big story, but there were a lot of little things that

  • happened too and that's the story I want to bring to people.

  • Radio Host: That's one of the amazing things about when I first met you and Zach, and I

  • walked up and I said hey Zach I'm with a label, we just got you on iTunes, you're on sale

  • in 146 countries, and his face lit up and he said well that's really cool man." But

  • he still wasn't grasping it. What I saw a month later when we went to the Varsity Theater

  • for the big concert for Zach, which you talk about in the book, it's a great section of

  • the book where Zach wanted to get out and play some live shows and twelve hundred people

  • showed up, but seeing Zach evolve into this musician, who knew that his time was short,

  • but he became this rockstar who knew that he had a platform that he could change the

  • world with through his music, that was a cool evolution to see.

  • Sam: I think above all, above all this stuff that's happened before like you know he was

  • a hero to a lot of people, even before any of that, the very first thing he was to me

  • was that he was my brother, and he was human being, he was the best friend that I ever had, on a human level.

  • Grace: He always makes his way in, makes it a little better

  • I guess he's trying to keep it like it used to be. He didn't have to do

  • something, he would just try to do a thing to make me happy. He just needed to be there

  • and I guess I haven't really realized it until now, but he's making his way in, just sitting

  • there quietly, waiting for me to notice him.

  • Laura: Thank you guys for coming out tonight.

  • So not long ago Zach was a very average kid living a very average, normal, teenage life.

  • I remember one afternoon I found him lying on our living room couch and when I walked

  • in the room I could tell there was something wrong. So I sat down and I asked, "Zach, what's

  • wrong?" And that's when he started to cry. He wanted to do be doing what a normal junior

  • in high school would be doing, but instead he was dealing with his pain and trying to

  • figure out how to do this thing, how to live while dying.

  • Rob: It's not about what job you're going to get when you get older, it's not about

  • how much money you're going to make when you get older, when you get to be seventy-five

  • or eighty years old, if you're fortunate enough to live that long, Zach wasn't, but if you

  • guys are, you're going to look back and say what good did I do for others.

  • Rob: There's this world where people go to work, they make money, they buy a car,

  • they might buy a boat, they have kids. But there's the other fifty percent that involves in my

  • mind, spirituality, connecting with people, and making a difference in the world.

  • Alli: When it comes down to it, it's the relationships you have with other people that is the most

  • important thing, how you treat other people and how you love them.

  • Laura: With everything that happened around Zach with the videos and the response to the

  • song and all of the outpouring of people around the world, I think I have a better understanding

  • of humanity. Because what I see is that we all hunger for the same thing, we are all

  • desperate for hope and for love. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't give up a moment.

  • I am a blessed woman, I truly am, to have had that child in my life.

  • He was a great kid.

[Katy Perry's "Firework"]

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