Carolyn Drone thought her days of coping with cancer were over. She’d finished leukemia treatment two years earlier and showed no signs of the disease.
“Finally, my world was returning to normal,” she says.
But “normal” ended when Carolyn’s husband, Jim, received his own cancer diagnosis.
“It seemed impossible that we had just gone down this path,” Carolyn says, “and now we were starting again.”
Carolyn’s hairy...
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