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  Stand Against Cancer was written by Zachariah Loon aka Daddy Love on July 19th, 2009 at the local airport diner in Norman,
Oklahoma.
Daddy Love performs as Zachariah Loon in Second Life; an online virtual world imagined & created by its residents.
Zachariah's assistant, Amanda Steadham (Canada), had asked Zachariah a few months before to write a special song to debut at Second Life's Relay For Life 2009 to benefit the American Cancer Society.
This was a
very precious time for Ms. Steadham. She was dealing with cancer herself for the second time and had lost her best friend / SL Sister Chablis Crabgrass to cancer in October 2007.
Both were quite involved with Relay For Life in Second Life.
Amanda had not spoken about it for weeks but on the way to breakfast that morning Zachariah
remembered the request. He wondered if perhaps since she had
not mentioned it again Ms. Steadham had forgotten about it. He felt bad about having not come up with a song for her and took some 3 x 5 cards and a pen in with him to breakfast - just in case.
After breakfast and about 2 hours before he was to play the closing slot for SL Relay For Life 2009 Zachariah wrote STAND AGAINST CANCER while drinking coffee in a booth at the diner.
On the way back to his studio, Mr. Loon contacted Ms. Steadham BRIEFLY and recited a few lines. Once on stage at the RFL event in Second Life, Zachariah played an original song, and then introduced STAND AGAINST CANCER - the song that he had just written that morning. After a few chords on the guitar to set the mood Zachariah sang "Cancer touches all of our lives, Mother, Father, Daughter and Son..." The lyrics of the song not only hit Amanda Steadham as she wiped her tears but also the rest of the audience present during the debut. STAND AGAINST CANCER has a universal perspective that applies to all of us and takes an aggressive empowering stance against cancer.
 "Until it's gone for once and for all!"
After playing the song Zachariah announced that he had intended to end the show with that song but just couldn't wait. He asked if it would be all right to play it a second time at the end of the show. The
audience response was overwhelmingly in favor and so it was the closing song for SL Relay For Life 2009.
I want to share an MP3 recording and lyrics to STAND AGAINST CANCER with you. Feel
free to download this song and lyrics and share with your friends and
family. Thanks for your time and support of this great cause! - Richard
'Daddy' Love aka Zachariah Loon
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