A brain cancer diagnosis in 2022 ended a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard and left helicopter pilot Zephyr Mays ’01 searching for a purpose. But with each stride in last month’s Boston Marathon, the former Tar Heel fencer felt he was doing what he was called to do. “I was really searching for some purpose, some direction in my life, because it really felt rudderless,” Mays said. When a member of Mays’ care team at Dana-Farber Cancer Instit…
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