I Want to Grow Hair， I Want to Grow Up， I Want to Go to Boise Children Surviving Cancer

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Whenever I told someone I was writing a

new book. they would break into a smile and ask,

"What s it about this time?"

When ! said it was a book on children surviv-

ing cancer, the expression on their faces changed.

Their eyes took on a look of pain. Their smiles

disappeared and their lips formed a firm line. They

looked at me with a pity usually reserved for a

woman who had just lost her bank card. When 1

explained that it would reflect humor and optimism,

the look changed again--this time to one usually

reserved for a woman who had just lost her mind.

Cancer and optimism were not considered

compatible on this planet.

It occurred to me that this is what the children

in this book see every time someone looks at them.

At the moment they stop being a kid and turn into

a child with cancer, the smiles disappear. Every face

around them reflects a mixture of sadness, shock.