EPILOGUE: USING YOUR POWERS FOR GOOD

The only thing needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

—EDMUND BURKE

WHEN MY MOM FOUND OUT she had triple-negative breast cancer, she gathered up all her PET scans and medical reports from a year earlier. The tests had been taken at a different hospital, after doctors spotted a couple small spots on her lungs, which ended up being some chemicals she must have inhaled years earlier. Prior to her doctor’s appointment at Massachusetts General Hospital for breast cancer, she came to my house in Alexandria, Virginia, for a weekend visit with her sister, my aunt Geraldine, and my cousin Joey. While we sat on my screened-in porch, I could tell that something was on my mother’s mind. Cautiously, ...

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