[Cancer and Society] Our Short History

Karen Neulander doesn't want to die. Hard-bitten political consultant, single mother to 6-year-old Jake, and a patient with stage IV ovarian cancer, Karen wants to be the exception to the rule of the terminal diagnosis. "If someone got to be a miracle" she asks, "why couldn't it be me?" Our Short History is a heart-rending letter that tells the story of a mother coming to terms with the end of her life, and saying goodbye to her son as best she can: with feeling.

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