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On Jan. 27, DDB Needham Dallas employees mourned the death of Brian Fletcher, the 8-year-old son of agency staffer Dwight Fletcher and his wife, Bitsey.
The boy’s nearly lifelong struggle with cancer ended that morning, and chairman Jake Shroepfer bore the burden of informing DDB colleagues of the tragic news.
“As many of you know, Brian has been battling a rare form of cancer for almost five years,” Shroepfer wrote in a memo. “He has been one of the most courageous human beings that I have ever seen.
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