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Vivian Bearing, Ph.D.

This character is a fifty-year-old professor of seventeenth-century poetry suffering from stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer.

Harvey Kelekian, M.D.

This character is the fifty-year-old chief of medical oncology at the University Hospital.

Jason Posner, M.D.

This character is a twenty-eight-year-old clinical fellow in the medical oncology branch.

Susie Monahan, R.N., B.S.N.

This character is a twenty-eight-year-old primary nurse in the Cancer Inpatient Unit.

E. M. Ashford, D.Phil.

This character is an eighty-year-old professor emeriti of English literature and eighty years old.

Mr. Bearing

This character is the protagonist’s father.

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