In Erma Bombeck’s I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to go to Boise: Children Surviving Cancer she tells powerful tales of children’s abilities to cut through “what might have been” and go directly to “what is now.”
Bert was a five-year-old suffering from neuroblastoma. His favorite thing to do was draw. When Bert was asked, “Are you going to be an artist when you grow up?” he answered, “I am an artist.”
Elsewhere, Bombeck poses the question to us all, “What good does it do if they cure the body but the person inside dies?”
Bert was a five-year-old suffering from neuroblastoma. His favorite thing to do was draw. When Bert was asked, “Are you going to be an artist when you grow up?” he answered, “I am an artist.”
Elsewhere, Bombeck poses the question to us all, “What good does it do if they cure the body but the person inside dies?”
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