On April 27, 2015, Josh Kovner of "The Hartford Courant" reported as follows:
"WINDSOR LOCKS — She went into the hospital five months ago identified in court papers as Cassandra C., the Windsor Locks teenager taken into state custody and forced by court order to receive chemotherapy for her Hodgkin's lymphoma after rejecting the treatment and running away.
She came out of the hospital Monday afternoon as Cassandra Callender, 17, cancer free, with a glowing smile, her face flushed by the first gulps of outdoor air since December, her brown her growing back in over dark eyes.
She was ready to hug her cat, wolf down her mom Jackie Fortin's shepherd's pie and mac and cheese, sleep in her own bed, and see where she stands at Windsor Locks High School, where she would have walked with her graduating class in June had she not become an international news story and a poster girl for those who advocate alternatives to chemotherapy..."
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