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WEBVTT INCREDIBLE STORY.ARI?ARI: IT'S BEEN A TOUGH YEAR FOMYA LAMBERT.SHE'S ONLY 17-YEARS-OLD,BATTLING HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMABUT FOR AT LEAST THIS ONE DAY,SHE WASN'T A CANCER PATIENT.TODAY, SHE GOT TO BE A SEATURTLE BIOLOGIST. >> READY TO GO?>> YEAH.ARI: MYA LAMBERT WILL TELL YOUSHE'S BEEN READY TO GO FOR ALONG TIME.>> CAN YOU PUT HIM DOWN THEREFOR ME?ARI: THIS 17-YEAR-OLD FROM NORTHDAKOTA LOVES SEA TURTLES, ALWAYSHAS, ALWAYS WANTED TO WORK WITHTHEM.>> IT'S JUST LIKE A DREAM COMETRUE TO BE WORKING WITH ALLTHESE ANIMALS IN THEIR HABITATARI: A DREAM, OR SOME MIGHT CALLIT A WISH COME TRUE.YOU CAN'T TELL BY LOOKING AT HER, BUT MYA IS BATTLING CANCER,AND HAS BEEN SINCE LAST FALL,WHEN SHE GOT SICK AND COULDN'TGET BETTER.>> WE WENT IN FOR A CHEST X-RAYAND THEY FOUND A HUGE MASS IN CHEST.THEY FOUND OUT IT WAS CANCERARI: NEARLY A YEAR LATER, MYA ISNOW IN REMISSION, AND WHEN THEGROUP MAKE A WISH ASKED HER WHATSHE WANTED MORE THAN ANYTHINGELSE IN THE WORLD, SHE SAID SHEWANTED TO WORK WITH SEA TURTLES.>> MYA'S WISH WAS TO BE A SEATURTLE BIOLOGIST.SO WE'RE FULFILLING THAT WISH.ARI: AND THAT'S WHY MYA ISSPENDING THE WEEK AT GUMBO LIMBONATURE CENTER IN BOCA RATON.>> I THINK THEY'RE REALLYAMAZING.YOU CAN'T SEE ANYTHING LIKE THISIN NORTH DAKOTA.SO, TO COME DOWN HERE AND LOOKAT ALL OF THESE, IT'SINCREDIBLEARI: INCREDIBLE, AND HARD WORK.MYA ISN'T JUST OBSERVING.>> ALRIGHT.YOU GOT MUSCLES.ARI: SHE'S DOING ANYTHING ANDEVERYTHING.>> SHE'S FEEDING THEM AND MAKINGSURE THEY'RE STRONG ENOUGH TO GOBACK IN THE WATER AND MAKINGSURE THEY'VE EATEN ENOUGARI: AND HOW ABOUT THIS -- THEFOLKS HERE AT GUMBO LIMBO JUSTFOUND A VERY RARE HAWKSBILL SEATURTLE, 110 POUNDS.THEY SAY SHE'S A FIGHTER, SO COURSE, THEY NAMED HER MYA.>> SO MYA HAS ACTUALLY BEENHELPING US TAKE CARE OF MYA.ARI: AND MYA IS ALSO TAKING CAREOF HERSELF, WORKING WITH STURTLES, MAKING HER WISH COMETRUE.ARI: IN FLORIDA, YOU HAVE TOHAVE A PERMIT TO DO WHAT MYA DIDTODAY, TO WORK WITH SEA TURTLEBUT GUMBO LIMBO TOOK CARE OFTHAT, ALSO.THEY HAD MYA'S NAME ADDED TO