Charles Grayson Gilbert, subject of iconic newspaper photo when he was a pediactric cancer patient, dies at 33

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Charles Grayson Gilbert, subject of iconic newspaper photo when he was a pediactric cancer patient, dies at 33

Charles Grayson Gilbert, who was 5 years old when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and became a miracle survivor and the subject of an acclaimed Baltimore Sun photograph, died Thursday in his sleep at his mother’s home in the Woodbrook neighborhood of Baltimore County. He was 33. “Grayson was one those people who didn’t want to be known as a miracle child,” said a brother, S.P. Wesley ...