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I am 20 years old, married to the greatest man in the world, and we have a 4 month old son named Ryan James Hueston. All my life, I have had a passion for writing. Others tell me I'm very talented at it, but I disagree. I love to express my opinion, and that's why I love Helium so much, because it gives me a way to do that. I am currently working on writing my first novel. Hopefully, when I'm finished, some nice publisher man will pick it up!

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Death of a parent

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Cancer. It's a devastating fact of life. An all consuming disease that has become all too familiar in my family. My father was first diagnosed when I was about 12 years old. Melanoma (skin cancer). An unfortunate side effect to building houses for a living. He loved doing it, but it would eventually be the cause of our heartbreak. He did the radiation, the chemo therapy, and his scans were clean. The trouble had passed... or so we thought. When I was 17 years old, my dad left his wife of 16 years. She herself was extremely ill with Hepatitis C treatments. Without an explanation or even a w...

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