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FALL <strong>2019</strong> | 17<br />
women, in three two-minute rounds<br />
during the boxing event at the<br />
House of Blues.<br />
O'Brien was required to set up a<br />
donation page and raise $7,500. But<br />
she decided to take it a step further.<br />
O'Brien swung big and made her<br />
donation goal $25,000. Every penny<br />
that's donated will go to Dana-<br />
Farber.<br />
Not only is she fighting for<br />
Josie's legacy, she said she is fighting<br />
to turn all the pain from the past<br />
year into something positive. With<br />
four months of training completed,<br />
O'Brien said the hours-long training<br />
sessions, five times a week, have<br />
become therapeutic.<br />
If she didn't have a 15-monthold<br />
baby and a husband waiting for<br />
her at home, she would be in the<br />
gym training seven days a week, she<br />
said.<br />
"Anytime I'm having a hard time,<br />
I think of her and everything she<br />
went through," O'Brien said. "I'm so<br />
glad to be raising this money in her<br />
honor."<br />
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