At the start of her senior year at Memorial High School in McAllen in 1998, doctors diagnosed Monica Montanaro with osteosarcoma for the second time. Her first diagnosis came during her sophomore year. At that time, the Rio Grande Valley did not have a cancer-treatment center for children, so Montanaro and her parents traveled to San Antonio for her treatments, often staying for weeks at a time. A group of classmates in Montanaro’s American Sign Language class formed Monica’s Angels and worked with angel-pin designer Rosemary Trevino to create a “Monica” pin. They decided to sell the pins to help ...