Suburban Cancer by Nathanael O'Reilly

When the neighborhood kids wrapped the Live Oak on my next-door-neighbor’s front lawn in toilet paper late on Saturday night, did they know she was inside her house fighting a cancer trying to kill her? Did they know she has barely stepped outside in months, that the affluent exterior of her home masks the tragedy of a newly wed young woman wrestling with the angel of death?

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