Contents

Contents
Chapter Thirteen: Important and Discouraging
Chapter One: The Nightmare from which I Cannot Awake
Chapter Two: I Have Cancer
Chapter Three: One God-made, One Man-made
Chapter Four: The Chemotherapy Chain
Chapter Five: Curly Hair at fifty-two
Chapter Six: No Guilt Trips Please
Chapter Seven: The Laws of Probability Don’t Matter—Until It Happens to You
Chapter Eight: Therapies
Chapter Nine: My Spiritual Side of Cancer
Chapter Ten: Survivors Patti, Joann, and Helen
Chapter Eleven: Marilyn—a Stem-cell Survivor
Chapter Twelve: Andrea—a Survivor since Age 24
Chapter Fourteen: The Rest of Your and My Story 


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(c) Marilynne Todd Linford, 2016

The cover original art is copyrighted
(c) Joan Crowther, 2013

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