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Show CHRYSALIS pAQE 153 It is not benign. It is cancer. Mama tells me, "I want to cry - cry - to go away someplace, anyplace - and never come back again." I feel a dreadful, tight aching in the middle of my chest. My mother. Mama. Laughing Pinky, the Girl with the Green Eyes. No one is spared. I think I can detect a hideous faint odor of disinfectant. I open a window for a breath of fresh air. I think I am going to be sick. Annelise brings me down a section from a midnight tabloid. Blessings light upon you, Annie. If I had half a crown a day. I'd gladly spend it on you. The tabloid announces NEW HOPE FOR CANCER VICTIMS. A post-operative treatment using a drug and a vaccine in combination has dramatically increased the survival rate for victims of melanoma. The treatment, using chemotherapy and immunotherapy "offers a statistically significant benefit on both diesase-free survival and also actual survival," declared Doctor Robert Carey, associate clinical professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. On the next page, between the "bust expander" - (My bust went from hopeless to fantastic in less than 15 days!) and |