The Phone Call After the Diagnosis
When Marcus Rivera got the call from his oncologist in March 2023, the first thing he did was phone his mother. Not because she could...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 78:1-2, 34-38.
When Marcus Rivera got the call from his oncologist in March 2023, the first thing he did was phone his mother. Not because she could fix anything — she was eighty-one and living in a small apartment in San Antonio — but because crisis has a way of sending us back to the people we've neglected. Marcus hadn't called her in four months.…
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