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LIVERMORE FALLS – Teenager Scott Marraffa has things to do and places to go before his time on Earth is up. He doesn’t know when that time will come, but he want to complete his “bucket list” well before it does.

The 13-year-old has cystic fibrosis, a lung disease. He checked off the first item on his list last week when he went skydiving in Lebanon.

On Monday, classmates and staff from the middle school held a car wash to raise money for him to visit the Statue of Liberty in New York, the second item on his to-do list.

The list is named after the movie, “The Bucket List,” starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, who decide what activities they want to experience while they’re alive.

The Livermore Falls School Student Council and staff members Grace Eaton and Doreen Jacobs sponsored the benefit car wash at the fire station.

While fellow students of the seventh-grader washed cars, Marraffa was among those encouraging vehicles to pull in to be washed.

Every time a big truck went by, the driver blew the horn stirring the excitement of the venture.

Friends doing the washing described Marraffa as funny, a very good jokester, lovable and an all around good guy.

“He’s nice to everybody. He treats everyone nicely no matter who you are,” student Alice Andrews said.

“He always has a smile on his face,” Vanessa Hastings added.

That was the case last week while he was falling through the air.

“It was so fun, way much more than I expected,” Marraffa said Monday. “Just the adrenaline of jumping out of a plane (14,000 feet in the air) and going 125 miles per hour.”

The first time he landed with his tandem-aide, they were a mile off course. The second jump, they landed in the targeted area.

With that item checked off now, he’s looking forward to the other adventures.

“All of the things I picked just seemed really cool to do,” Marraffa said.

Next summer, he wants to go to Italy with his family. Beyond that, he wants to visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., Lego Land in California and Loch Ness in Scotland. Representatives from Lego Land have called and said if they could get there, they would put the family up, his father, David Marraffa said.

“He is a normal healthy child; he just has some complications,” the elder Marraffa said.

The doctors couldn’t give a timeline of how long he had to live, his father said. It could be one year, it could be 15 years, it could be more.

“You never know,” David Marraffa said.

His son decided he wanted to set some goals and accomplish them.

“I just wanted to do these things before I passed on,” the teenager said. “I just feel really thankful for everyone who is doing this to help me.”

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