By Sara Sadik

Any mama’s heart skips a beat with a bad scrape, unexpected fall or an extra careful doctor who orders another X-ray.  All of a sudden words like, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, ironically abbreviated ALL, filled the air. With no planned preparation or pointless small talk, Reem plunges head first into the middle of it all and says, “Zoanne had leukemia.” I know that I’m here to get her story and try to capture a part of it, if even a tinge of it. But it is still shocking to hear. I swallow thickly but she barely blinks. She has had years to digest this and  share her story.  Her daughter Zoanne was six at the time and is now on the edge of those memorable teenage years.

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