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ABOUT THE BITCH My friends say I shouldn’t call this book Cancer Bitch because, they say, I am not now and was not ever a bitch during surgery and chemo. But I thought my blog should be called Cancer Something, and Babe was too young and Vixen was already taken. So I became the Bitch. I added a few sections after the fact but didn’t make anything up. A few names of individuals and their identifying characteristics were changed in the interest of privacy. There are no composite characters . The names of the coffee houses were not changed because they are independent and need the business. No animals were harmed in the production of this book except a few mice, and they were home invaders. In the back of the book you will find notes on sources, some explanations, definitions of foreign words, and a few updates. They’re not footnoted, but are keyed to entry dates. ...

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