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Photo Gallery | Former patient donates bears to St. Jude

Ethan Menne has a living room filled with more than two dozen bears for his birthday — but the generous young boy isn't keeping the bears for himself.

Ethan received about $200 for his 10th birthday.

He told his mother he wanted to use it to make bears for kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Ethan was once a patient at St. Jude.

He was the first patient at the hospital to be treated for a rare bleeding disorder called Glanzmann's Thrombasthenia.

He had a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, and is now fully cured.

All of Ethan's birthday money was spent on making 22 bears.

Watch more in this video here.