The Southern Review, September 22nd, 2004
KATE ANSWERED HIS PERSONAL AD in late summer soon after she'd been told for the second time that she was dying. She had always thought of herself as shy, not the type even to peruse such ads. But the news had been jolting, if not altogether unexpected, and had allowed her to act outside her old ideas of herself.
The first time her doctor told her she would die had been two years before. The cancer had started in her left breast and moved to her brain, She'd had a mastectomy and undergone a full course of chemotherapy to no effect. A divorcee, she was close to only a few people: her sixteen-...
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