| My life has
many parts. Like
a jigsaw puzzle. Each one of those parts contains a different part of
the
picture, a fragment of the whole. One of those pieces happens to be
that
I had cancer.
Without that experience, I wouldn't be the person I am. The picture would be incomplete. But it's only one piece. A big piece, maybe, but not the whole picture. Not even close. And so I wrote the poems on the next pages, in the hopes that through them, you will learn to: |
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Joan
Fleitas, Ed.D., R.N.
Associate
Professor of Nursing, Lehman College, CUNY
Bronx,
New York 10468
Last
updated: May 14, 2006