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Cancer survivors and American Cancer Society supporters are joining together for Relay for Life. The University of Florida Relay for Life begins at 5 PM to support the fight against cancer. Devon Richbell is one of the event's chairs, but she is also one of the cancer survivors that will be at the relay. Richberg is especially looking forward to one of the events at tonight's Relay for Life, the Survivor's Lap, to recognize and honor the survivors as they lap the track. Richberg says Relay for Life empowers the survivors. Relay Chair Jacki Klucharch is one of those people touched by cancer, and she says that is the reason why she relays.Klucharch says each participant helps bring the Gainesville community together. UF's Relay for Life begins at 5 PM in the University of Florida's O-Connell Center and is open to the public until midnight.