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(CNN) -- Country singer Kevin Sharp, best known for his hit "Nobody Knows," has died from "complications due to cancer," his mother said. He was 43.

Sharp was diagnosed with cancer as a teenager. He was treated, and the disease did not reoccur, but he had problems later in life because of the radiation and chemotherapy he underwent, Elaine Sharp said.

She said her son died Saturday night at her home in Fair Oaks, California.

"He had a good, strong heart," she said. "He's not hurting anymore."

His website added that he died "due to ongoing complications from past stomach surgeries and digestive issues."

Sharp grew up wanting to be a singer. According to a 1998 story from Music City News, Sharp -- who grew up in a large family that included a number of foster children -- was a high school athlete and participated in a Sacramento, California, light-opera company.

It was during his senior year in high school that he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer that had spread to his lungs. The ailment led to Sharp meeting producer and songwriter David Foster through the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Foster, known for his work with such artists as Celine Dion and Michael Buble, helped support Sharp through years of chemotherapy and a determination to wean himself from painkillers after the cancer went into remission.

In the mid-'90s, after working at an amusement park to make ends meet, Sharp landed a record deal and went to No. 1 on the country charts with "Nobody Knows." He followed that hit with a handful of others, including "She's Sure Taking It Well" and "If You Love Somebody."

1. did Sharp grow up in a large family?
2. When was he diagnosed with cancer?
3. Where did he die?
4. did he grow up wanting to sing?
5. Who died?
6. What kind of cancer did he have?
7. was he a high school athlete?
8. What producer did he meet?
9. Where did Sharp work in the mid-90's?
10. What caused his death?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Yes
2. his senior year in high school
3. at her home in Fair Oaks, California
4. Yes
5. Kevin Sharp
6. bone cancer
7. Yes
8. David Foster
9. an amusement park
10. complications due to cancer,

Question: For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

As Amy Paul choked on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy's hair until she woke up and called for help.

No one could explain their timely heroics.

Both pets were rescued by their owners in _ -----Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy's husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.

As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple's 14-year-old son was already unconscious. "Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound," Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.

Amy Paul's husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. "Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that's what caused me to choke," she recalled. "I couldn't breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life."

Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon. 1. What animals are being honored?
2. What is it that they are being honored for?
3. How old is the male?
4. What did the owner have lodged in her airway?
5. Where were they from?
6. Was he bought at a pet store?
7. Where did he come from?
8. how old was he?
9. What did the male owner do for a living?
10. What was the cause of the obstruction? What was different this time?
11. The other animal's living saving act was what?
12. What was the danger she faced?
13. Was that animal bought at a store?
14. Where did she come from?
15. What organization was awarding the heroic two?
16. Was anyone else in danger when the feline came to their aid?
17. What was his age?
18. How close were they to dying?
19. According to who>
20. Who attended the award ceremony? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. a Dog and Cat
2. nick-of-time acts
3. two
4. apple
5. Indiana
6. no
7. a garbage bin
8. 4-week-old
9. unknown
10. the skin
11. woke up Cathy
12. carbon monoxide
13. no
14. under a barn
15. the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
16. their son
17. 14
18. minutes
19. The state police
20. Toby and Winnie

Q: CHAPTER VIII

"A shade more to the right, please. There, just as you are now! Don't move! In five minutes I shall have finished for the day."

Isobel smiled.

"I think that your five minutes," she said, "last sometimes for a very long time. But I am not tired--no, not at all. I can stay like this if you wish until the light goes."

"You are splendid," Mabane murmured. "The best sitter--oh, hang it, who's that?"

"There is certainly some one at the door," Isobel remarked.

Mabane paused in his work to shout fiercely, "Come in!" I too looked up from my writing. A woman was ushered into the room--a woman dressed in fashionable mourning, of medium height, and with a wealth of fair, fluffy hair, which seemed to mock the restraining black bands. Mrs. Burdett, visibly impressed, lingered in the background.

The woman paused and looked around. She looked at me, and the pen slipped from my nerveless fingers. I rose to my feet.

"Eil--Lady Delahaye!" I exclaimed.

She inclined her head. Her demeanour was cold, almost belligerent.

"I am glad to find you here, Arnold Greatson," she said. "You are a friend, I believe, of the man who murdered my husband?"

"You have been misinformed, Lady Delahaye," I answered quietly. "I was not even an acquaintance of his. We met that day for the first time."

By the faintest possible curl of the lips she expressed her contemptuous disbelief.

"Ah!" she said. "I remember your story at the inquest. You will forgive me if, in company, I believe, with the majority who heard it, I find it a trifle improbable."

1. Isobel
2. Mabane
3. the door,
4. Lady Delahaye
5. Arnold Greatson
6. murdered
7. Arnold Greatson
8. You have been misinformed
9. Just that day
10. No

Numbered questions:
1. Who is being told to stay still?
2. Who was the painter?
3. What interrupted him?
4. Who walked in?
5. Who was the woman glad to see?
6. What was her husband's fate?
7. Who did she think was friendly with his killer?
8. Was she correct?
9. How long had they known each other?
10. Did the widow trust in his words?