What was not supposed to happen, the son of a communist agent got leukemia. AS the hematologist of the Childrens Hospital, a diagnosed him. A dozen of doctors were called in consult, but non of them had the guts to confirm my diagnosis. The Party ordered me to take the child to the Hematology Institute in Bucharest...
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At the Institute he was found free of symptoms of leukemia. I was threatened, nut I did not change my diagnosis. I felt sorry for the child, but knew that I was right, he was in remission. One month later he died of leukemia.
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TRUE STORY. Bella survived an abusive powerbroker father with organized crime ties, a drug-addicted mother and a physically/sexually abusive brother. Shocking & inspirational. When she couldn't cry, she tattooed a crying angel to cry for her.
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri