April 3, 2007

- Don Hudson has vivid memories of the day in 2004 when he and his wife, Susan, walked into their study, closed the door and told their teenage daughter Kate that she had Hodgkin's Disease.

"We never close doors at our house, so she knew it was something serious," Hudson said. "When we told her, she started backing away, practically screaming, 'No. No. No.'"

Yesterday, Don and Kate Hudson ran in the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10K.

Kate, 19, began several waves ahead of her father, but he made sure she always was with him.

The front of Don Hudson's T-shirt said, "Big Daddy" and had a picture of his four children. The back had two pictures of Kate, one when she was a year old and the other from her senior year in high school.

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