"She's a ray of sunshine everywhere she goes," Mila's mother Kristin Lux said. "She's very bubbly, upbeat, independent anything hands on, she's all about."

"She's a fighter and motivation for a ton of people, especially me, to be a greater person," Mila's father James Freeman said.

Her parents said their daughter's traits were necessary for the battle she began when she was just 2 years old when she was diagnosed with glioblastoma grade 4.

"That is a terminal brain cancer," Lux said. "She beat all the odds that were going against her."

Lux said Mila never let the cancer treatment get to her.

But sometimes what comes after those battles can be the toughest.

"She didn't want to go to school every morning and it was hard just to get her dressed," Lux said. "She told me that the kids wer

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