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Illustrates the pioneering efforts of an organization that is devoted to making the lives of children with cancer rewarding, an organization inspired by Teddi Mervis, a girl who lost her battle with cancer.

Table of Contents

Preface
A World Comes Apart
That First Night
The First Day
The Ante Goes Up
A World Comes Apart
Wrestling with the Devil
Starting Over
Looking for Miracles
The New Terms of Hope
Hard Lessons
The Quality of Time
New Terms of Hope
Back to School
New Hope
The Second Campaign
Waiting and Letting Go
A Dream Gets Born
Good Days
Special Times
The Sound of the Second Shoe
Starting Over
"I Love You Anyway"
Decline
The Second Camp
As Autumn Approached
A New Friend
Hope Rethought
Of Death and a Dream
"They've Come for Teddi"
Waiting
A Child Dies
Come Saturday Morning
"Don't Hang onto Good-Bye"
A Dreadful Silence
To Go on Anyway
Epilogue
A Place in the World
Afterword

About the Author

Lou Buttino is Professor of Communication Studies, the University of North Carolina.