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physical battles; they were moments of reckoning. The illness forced a radical, unflinching honesty that she had spent a lifetime avoiding. She realized that the strength she had cultivated to survive her childhood was the same strength she now needed to confront her mortality.

Instead of retreating into the shadows, Applegate chose a different path:continue reading …