A different kind of love story
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Tony Colton and Ashley Krueger have been close friends since going through cancer treatments together at All Childrens Hospital. Tony and the Englewood-based kids' charity Kids Creating Change plan a fundraiser Saturday for Ashley.
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Tony Colton celebrates his 13th birthday.
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Ashley Krueger is a senior at Sarasota Military Academy and plans to walk with her graduating class in 2013.
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Tony Colton, 13, of Sarasota heard about the Englewood-run charity Kids Creating Change and looked to them for help raising funds for his friend who is fighting cancer. Tony, center, is pictured with Englewood-area kids Andrew Craig, 13, Clayton Crawford, 13, Nick Crawford, 14, Mikalya Hacksunda, 12, Caitlyn Lovelace, 12, and Alyssa Crawford, 7. A yard-sale fundraiser is planned Saturday at Quality Self Storage, 3041 S. McCall Road, Englewood. For more information, call 941-474-2270.
ENGLEWOOD — Tony Colton and Ashley Kreuger met when he was 12 and she was 16, and they were both fighting for their lives in the children’s cancer ward at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.
They hit it off immediately. While many of the other sick kids stayed in their hospital rooms, Tony and Ashley were always out in the hallways.
