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Article: CARRYING OUT FATHER'S FINAL REQUEST BECAME LABOR OF LOVE.(VIEWPOINT)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1997
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Byline: Tracie Breiter
THIS Father's Day is going to be difficult. For the first time in 40 years, I won't have a father to honor. My father is no longer alive. After a short bout with cancer, he died this past February.
So this year I won't be agonizing over whether to get him another polo shirt or something for his computer, but I did conquer many fears in order to give him one last gift.
When my father was diagnosed with cancer last November, my worst fear had come true. At 77, he was the remaining member of his immediate family, having lost his mother and three siblings to cancer. I had worried that he too would succumb to the disease.
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