“Their
Approval or disapproval defined everything for me, and I believed with every
cell in my body that approval wasn't written into my particular script.”
“I was
responsible for my mother’s unhappy life.”
“Fascinated
by how much pain I was in and by how strangely peaceful I felt.”
“She
told me how brave I was and how lucky we all were that this had happened to me
and not Sarah, my twin sister.”
“I
loved any chances to drive through the filthy, bewildering streets of New York,
see so many different types of people, marvel that so many noises could exist
all at once.”
“All I had
to do was perform heroically and I could personally save my entire family.”
“I’d
consciously packed no stuffed animal to bring to the hospital. I was of
paramount importance that I appear adult, strong, unafraid.”
“Not
one person ever said the word cancer to me, at least not in a way that registered
as pertaining to me.”
“Sooner
or later we all have to learn the words with which to name our own private
losses, but then we just stood there in a front of the nurses’ desk,
speechless.”
Lucy family was not the type of supportive or
emotional family. Lucy’s family related to David Small’s family. The both
families were dysfunctional in way and demonstrated that they had to be strong
and should not show any sign of crying because it was sign of weakness. Both
families had issues on how they will get money to pay for their child’s treatment.
Also, Lucy and David had trouble through their childhood of finding their own identity
but eventually David found his pathway through life.
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