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Suburban Houston parish carries big clout in city

Something unfunny happened on Kathy Doran's way to becoming a social worker with designs on changing the world.

She got her master's degree, and then she got cancer: "breast to liver to bone," as she dispassionately sums up her 14-year-ordeal. Most recently, as of summer 1999, the cancer spread to her brain.

Obviously, this has not been good news for Doran, 49, or for her family, ironically, though, her illness has been fortuitous for her life goals and for her parish -- and by extension for Houston's struggling underclass. Though classified as Stage 4 terminal, Doran is very much alive, thanks ...

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