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First, she had breast cancer and a couple of years later she had ovarian cancer. For about five years, it seemed like all of her life was surgery, radiation, and chemo-therapy.
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While she was recovering from the second cancer, I wrote a poem about her experience, and it appears in my book about my parents, Lighning and Ashes.
.Recently, the poem was republished by The Survivor's Review, an online journal for and about cancer survivors.
I thought you might like to see the poem and maybe take a look at some of the other poems and stories there.
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Here's the link:
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