A group of teenage girls will take turns wearing the same blue dress at their school dances this year to honor their friend who died from cancer last year.
Catherine Malatesta died on August 2, 2015, at age 16. She had managed to attend junior prom before her death, wearing that same blue dress.
“I guess for us, it’s a way to keep her spirit and legacy alive,” Catherine’s dad Gregg Malatesta told ABC News. “It’s really special that these girls were so passionate about wearing the dress. That was the last time they saw Catherine out-and-about with her radiant smile and having a great time at the prom so I think for them, it’s pretty special.”
Catherine had received her stage 4 diagnosis of epithelioid sarcoma in November of 2014, and went through months of chemotherapy before passing away.
“She was fearless, she was confident and she had an incredible amount of courage,” her father said.
After Catherine died, some of her friends stopped by her house to mourn, and Catherine’s mother showed them some of Catherine’s things to remember her by, and they spotted her dress.
