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Jaysen Carr, 12, of Columbia, S.C., died on July 18 after he contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming at a lake

He was a student athlete at Hand Middle School and a member of a school group dedicated to inclusion

Jaysen's family and friends recently honored him on what would have been his 13th birthday

The family and friends of a South Carolina boy who died almost three months ago after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba recently paid tribute to him during a celebration on what would have been his 13th birthday.

“We always gave him an option of a birthday party or a family trip, and he always chose to go to the beach,” Ebony Carr told CBS affiliate WLTX about her late son Jaysen on Friday, Oct. 3. “He said that he was going to wait until his 13th birth

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