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Please Talk about Me When I'm Gone

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Question: How do you get over it? 
Answer: You don't. You don't want to. It makes you who you are. 

Sean Murphy lost his mother days after her fifty-ninth birthday, following a five-year battle with cancer. In this eloquent memoir, he explores his family history through the context of grief, compassion, faith, and the cultivation of an artistic sensibility. Unfolding in a range of voices, brutal and tender in its portrayal of terminal illness, Please Talk about Me When I'm Gone is an unyielding love story, in which devotion and memory are capable of transcending death.

I will be serializing this memoir with a new chapter twice a week, on Friday and Sunday.All Rights Reserved

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Teddy Bear Trials by AVERYxELIZABETH

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Memoirs of A Healer/Clinical Social Worker: Autobiography of Bruce Whealton by BruceWhealton

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Letting you go [COMPLETE] cover

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Letting you go [COMPLETE]

| STAND ALONE NOVEL | You have seven years left to live. Those are the words Alyson Adams heard when she was ten. She found out she was going to die before she even had the chance to live. But her story isn't over. Far from it. She's going to experience love and happeniness, just like any other teenager. Her story may not be a happy one, but it's her story and she's going to write it the way she wants. After all... Cancer isn't the end. It's only the beginning.